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EU: Straatgezicht in Colombo, Ceylon (0cb31bf3) (1940)

1940 Colombo, Sri Lanka

A 1940 street scene in Colombo, the capital of what was then British Ceylon, showing everyday urban life along one of the city's thoroughfares. The photograph belongs to a Dutch-language archival collection documenting the island during the colonial period.

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