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    Wesley College Colombo 1880-1900

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    Queen Street & General Post Office Colombo

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    Gaffoor’s Building Colombo early 1900s

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    Victoria arcade & GOH Buildings Colombo Fort

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    Ceylon Grand Oriental Hotel 1880s

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    View of Mount Lavinia Hotel, Ceylon 1860-1880

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    British Colonial Heritage Hotel

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    GOH & Victoria Arcade Colombo Sri Lanka Early c.1900

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    New Keena Hotel, Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka 1910s

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    Galle Face Hotel, Colombo, Sri Lanka 1910

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    Bristol Hotel Colombo, Ceylon c.1920

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    Grand Oriental Hotel, Colombo, Ceylon 1880

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    Mount Lavinia Hotel, Colombo 1930s

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    Native Boutique Colombo, Sri Lanka

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    Fruit Market Colombo Ceylon 1909

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    Native Children Colombo Ceylon 1909

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    Typical Road Scene Native Hut

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    Typical Road Scene – Group of Natives

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    Native Road Scene – Ceylon 1903

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    Bullock hackeries – Colombo

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    Road to Mount Lavinia, Bambalapitiya

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    Ceylon Busy Road View

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    Skinnan Road, Colombo, Ceylon 1870

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    Sinhalese Peasants 1880 Ceylon

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    Mt Lavinia Road – Colombo, Ceylon

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    Native Street Scene 1870, Ceylon

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    Young Women Bathing, Ceylon Colombo

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    Fruit seller Colombo Ceylon

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    A Typical road side group of natives, Ceylon

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    Group of Natives, Early 1900s Sri Lanka

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    Natives & their mud hut, Ceylon

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    Natives and Their Hut Ceylon

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    Bull carriages Near Kandy Sri Lanka Ceylon c.1930s

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    Galle Road Near Colombo Sri Lanka Late 1800s

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    Galle road Colombo, Ceylon

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    Roadside Scene Colombo Ceylon

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    Natives on the Road near Colombo Ceylon

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    A stretch of native houses near Colombo Late 1800s

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    Typical village scene near Colombo

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    Sinhalese man (Low-Country) Sri Lanka c.1920-30

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    Portrait of a Kandyan Landy – Ceylon

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    Kandyan Woman, Ceylon c.1870

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    Portrait of a Sinhalese Woman – Ceylon

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    Native Sinhalese Girl 1870

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    Portrait of a Tamil Woman – Ceylon

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    A Tamil Lady, Ceylon c1875

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    Native Sinhalese Girl, Ceylon c.1800s

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    Kandyan Chief Ceylon late 1800s

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    Portrait of a Native Girl Ceylon c.1890

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    Portrait of a Tamil Lady, Ceylon c.1890

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    Jaffna Tamil Girl Ceylon 1910

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    Portrait of beautiful Tamil women, Ceylon

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    Native woman 1880-1890

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    Native Singhalese Woman

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    Sinhalese man, Ceylon c1900′s

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    Tamil woman Ceylon Late 1800′s

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    Young Woman Ceylon, circa 1880

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    Kandyan Lady c.1904

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    Native Singalese Girl, Sri Lanka

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    Ceylon Kandyan Chief 1875

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    Portrait of native Sinhalese Man c.1880

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    Colombo Street Scene

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    Native Huts Ceylon 1800′s

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    Natives on the road at Kandy, Ceylon 1937

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    A young girl on the Kandy Road, Ceylon 1937

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    High Street, Colombo, Ceylon c.1880

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    Natives and their dwellings, Ceylon c1880

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    A road scene near Kandy, Ceylon 1910

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    A native family, Ceylon 1880 – 1890

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    Compound of a bungalow, Ceylon, Sri Lanka

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    Scenery in Sri Lanka (Ceylon) c.1852



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    Public bathing place at Kandy, Ceylon

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    Bathing place near Colombo, Ceylon 1910

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    Native village women and their Hut, Ceylon

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    Native family and their dwelling, Ceylon

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    Road scene near Colombo

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    Road Scene, Cinnamon Gardens, Colombo



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    Road scene near Colombo, late 1800′s

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    Native children Climbing a coconut palm tree

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    Group of native boys (golf caddies) at Colombo, Ceylon

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    Road scene near Colombo, Ceylon c.1880

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    Typical road side near Colombo

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    Native sinhalese villagers near Colombo, Ceylon

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    Out station road scene 1910

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    Village scene Sri lanka Pre 1900′s

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    Native Bazaar Colombo Ceylon in Early 1900s

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    Native Huts & Villagers near Colombo, Ceylon c.1920s

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    Sri Lankan Malays, Ceylon 1880-1890

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    Brahmins at prayer, Ceylon


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    Brahmin Wedding in Ceylon


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    Low caste Girl at market place


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    The plantation Tamils of Ceylon


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    Tamil woman & child 1890-1900s


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    A Group of Indian Tamil Girls c.1880


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    Native Dancers at Trincomalee

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    1900′s Devil Dancers Ceylon

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    Group of Dancers, Ceylon in 1880-1890

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    1900 Devil Dancers Ceylon



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    Group of Native Dancers in Ceylon

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    Native Kandyan Dancers Ceylon c1910

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    Rice Merchant with His goods, Colombo, Ceylon

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    Processing rubber sheets ceylon

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    Sorting Copra to make Coconut oil, Ceylon

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    PLUMBAGO or Graphite Preparation in Ceylon

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    Door to door clay pot seller in the Colpetty Road Colombo

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    Silversmiths at work, Ceylon c.1880

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    The blacksmith at Ratnapura, Ceylon 1903

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    Government House Peons at Nuwara Eliya, Ceylon

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    Native fruite seller Colombo Ceylon

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    Branding Cattle, Ceylon

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    Pearl fisheries in ceylon 1920-1930

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    Snake Charmers, Ceylon

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    Primitive Gemstone Cutting Technique in Ceylon

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    Loading plumbago barrels into bullock carts for shipping

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    lumbago yard (Graphite) Ceylon c.1910

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    Coolies Natives Pounding Rice – Ceylon

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    Ivory Turning in early 1900s Sri Lanka

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    Sinhalese mat makers near Kandy 1880

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    Baling cinnamon in Sri Lanka

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    Native Sinhalese Toddy collector

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    Native School Childrens Late 1800s Sri Lanka

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    Road Scene Colpetty, Colombo, Ceylon early 1900s

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    Colpetty Road, Mount Lavinia, Colombo

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    Sinhalese Women at Work, Ceylon

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    Native Bar with Native People

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    Outskirts of Colombo Ceylon 1870 – 1890

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    A typical native house in the nearby Sinharaja Forest, Ceylon

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    Native Sinhalese family in Sri Lanka early 1900s

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    A group of golf caddies at Nuwara Eliya, Ceylon 1903

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    Sinhalese Children on Kandy Road Ceylon

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    Roadside native fruit seller near Colombo Sri Lanka

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    A tollkeeper with his badge of office, Ceylon

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    Native Family ,Woman & Children, Ceylon 1870

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    Female labourers peeling coffee using traditional methods

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    Tapping Rubber in Ceylon early 1900s

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    A Girl Harvesting Cocoa Pods, Ceylon 1910

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    Ceylon coffee Production Late 1800s

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    Ploughing the rice fields, Ceylon

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    Traditional hand method (Transplanting) of cultivating Rice

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    Drying grounds for coffee, Ceylon

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    Ox cart near Colombo fort 1929

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    Bullock Cart & Driver, Ceylon 1870

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    A mountain Road to Haputale, Sri Lanka 1894

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    A mountain Road near Haputale, Ceylon 1894

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    Horse carriage on slave island (Kompanna Veediya) colombo

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    A street scene in Colombo, Ceylon 1878 – 1882

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    A rickshaw driver & his passenger at Kandy, Ceylon 1880 – 1890

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    Horse carriage and a rickshaw, Colombo, Ceylon

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    Elephant transporting a boiler to Tea Factory

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    Village scene, Ceylon c.1875

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    Bullock cart near Kandy, Ceylon 1930 – 1940

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    Galle road Ceylon by skeen Early 1900s

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    Rickshaws & drivers in Ceylon

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    Village Scene in early 1900s, Sri Lanka

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    Typical road scene on Galle Road, Ceylon 1880

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