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EU: Passar (markt) te Colombo, Ceylon (1940) [dbe0338b]

1940 Colombo, Sri Lanka

A market scene in Colombo is recorded in this 1940 photograph, showing the kind of everyday commerce that continued in the Ceylonese capital even as war spread across Europe and Asia.

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