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Photographer/Artist: Skeen & Co.
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fantastic picture.
thanks a lot to lankapura.com there is lot of messages to school childrens to do projects .and ancient of kandi
Did Henry Maurice Drummond_Hay take a local Ceylonese wife from 1897 to death in 1932
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