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EU: Colombo (Sri Lanka). Street with plan cars pulled by oxen Colombo (Sri Lanka). Straße mit von Ochsen gezogenen Planwagen (1913), Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1913

EU: Colombo (Sri Lanka). Street with plan cars pulled by oxen Colombo (Sri Lanka). Straße mit von Ochsen gezogenen Planwagen (1913)

1913 Colombo, Sri Lanka

Covered wagons drawn by oxen travel a Colombo road in this 1913 image, illustrating goods transport in early twentieth-century Ceylon.

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