EU: View of the City and Harbour of Colombo, from the St James Church Belfry (1904)
1904 Colombo, Sri Lanka
Colombo's harbor and cityscape are surveyed here from the belfry of St James Church in this 1904 photograph, offering an elevated view of Ceylon's principal port at the turn of the twentieth century.
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