EU: Colombo, Sri Lanka. Street with houses and palm trees (1913)
1913 Colombo, Sri Lanka
A residential street lined with houses and palm trees in Colombo is photographed in 1913. Streets like this one reflected the mix of colonial-era housing and tropical vegetation characteristic of the city's residential quarters in the early twentieth century.
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