Road Scene Colpetty, now Kolpetty or Kollupitiya (Colombo 03) early 1900s Sri Lanka
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Indigenous boy carrying a Jak Fruit (not a Breadfruit) near Kandy, Ceylon. Pub. by Associated Screen News Limited, Montreal – Canadian Pacific Cruise.
Galle Road at Colpetty.around 1900. This is a good picture of this spot. Tennent writes of Colpetty being a very great residential area of the Europeans and others such as Chetties long before this time.This is then probably an undeveloped part of Colpetty.