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Crowd lining a street of tiled shops, Colombo. Colombo.
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Crowd lining a street of tiled shops, Colombo

Colombo
c. 1880

Certainty
Likely
A probable identification that has not been confirmed.
On the print
Handwritten: "Street Scene" and "Colombo" (partly legible)
Date basis
Date not confirmed
Identified by
Visual identification; place and date compared with Lankapura captions
Place
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Reference
TCP-P197

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