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Narrow streets, Zanzibar City
1920 Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania
The narrow, winding streets of Zanzibar City's Stone Town are captured in this 1920 photograph. The old quarter, built up over centuries of trade across the Indian Ocean, was known for its dense layout of coral-stone buildings and narrow alleys.
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