EU: Street Scene with Covered Wagons in Pettah, Colombo (1900)
1900 Colombo, Sri Lanka
Covered wagons line a street in Pettah, Colombo's historic commercial quarter, in this photograph from around 1900. Pettah had long served as the trading heart of the Ceylonese capital.
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