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EU: Straatgezicht in Colombo, Ceylon (1940) [e0aae2b2]

1940 Colombo, Sri Lanka

A Colombo street scene from 1940 shows pedestrians and buildings typical of the Ceylonese capital in the years just before the island became directly threatened by the wider Pacific war.

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