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EU: Colombo, Sri Lanka. Locals and tourists on the beach (1913) [0000441]

1913 Colombo, Sri Lanka

Local residents and visiting tourists mingle on a Colombo beach in this 1913 photograph, taken during the era of British colonial rule in Ceylon, when the port city drew growing numbers of foreign travelers.

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