EU: Dog on the street in the township of Nairobi (1927)
1927 Nairobi, Kenya
A dog rests on a street in the township of Nairobi in this 1927 photograph, offering a glimpse of everyday life in the young colonial-era town, which had grown up around a railway depot founded only three decades earlier.
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