EU: Colombo (Sri Lanka). Street with local children (1913)
1913 Colombo, Sri Lanka
Children stand along a street in Colombo in this 1913 photograph, offering a glimpse of daily neighborhood life in the Ceylonese capital during the early years of the twentieth century, when the port city drew a steady flow of foreign visitors.
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