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Colombo, Ceylon

The Colombo Apothecaries Co., Ltd.after 1892

The J. Paul Getty Museum

The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States

View of a major thoroughfare, lined with a row of western style buildings on one side. Includes a partial view of the Grand Oriental Hotel, a large, three-storey building with arched ground floor windows, in the foreground. Also visible are a few covered wagons, as well as a number of people dressed in traditional and western style garments, including sarongs and pith helmets.

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  • Title: Colombo, Ceylon
  • Creator: The Colombo Apothecaries Co., Ltd.
  • Date Created: after 1892
  • Location Created: Colombo, Ceylon; Colombo, Sri Lanka
  • Physical Dimensions: 21.7 × 27.9 cm (8 9/16 × 11 in.)
  • Type: Print
  • External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
  • Medium: Albumen silver print
  • Terms of Use: Open Content
  • Number: 84.XA.941.5.35
  • Culture: Sri Lankan
  • Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
  • Creator Display Name: The Colombo Apothecaries Co., Ltd. (Sri Lankan, founded about 1880, dissolved 1920s)
  • Classification: Photographs (Visual Works)
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