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EU: Colombo (Sri Lanka). Street with plan cars pulled by oxen (1913)

1913 Colombo, Sri Lanka

Ox-drawn carts move along a street in Colombo in this 1913 photograph. Bullock carts were a familiar sight on the roads of Ceylon, used to haul goods through the city and surrounding countryside.

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