EU: Grasveld (aloon-aloon) in Semarang met een treinstel van de SJS en op de achtergrond een moskee (1870)
1870 Semarang, Indonesia
The aloon-aloon, or town square, of Semarang is pictured in 1870 with a train of the Samarang-Joana Stoomtram Maatschappij crossing the open grass and a mosque visible in the background. Such squares were a common feature at the center of towns across colonial-era Java.
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