Portrait of Arshak (1), Aviet (2) and Tigran (3) Sarkies. From Twentieth century impressions of British Malaya: its history, people, commerce, industries
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Philip Adolphe Klier in the 1890s. The hotel was built in 1896 for the SarkiesBrothers, founders of two other famous colonial hotels, Raffles Hotel in Singapore