Gezicht op Galle Face in Colombo op Brits Ceylon
1880 Colombo, Sri Lanka
Galle Face in Colombo, the open seafront esplanade that became a fashionable promenade for the colonial city, pictured in 1880 not long after it was laid out along the Indian Ocean shoreline.
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