EU: Straatgezicht in Colombo (Ceylon) in de jaren 40. (1940)
1940 Colombo, Sri Lanka
A street in Colombo, Ceylon, photographed in the early 1940s, capturing daily life in the colonial-era capital during a decade shaped by global war.
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