EU: Street scene in Zanzibar (c. 1900) through time

Stone Town 1900–1961 10 photos of this spot

10 photographs taken at the same spot in Stone Town, spanning 1900–1961 — 10 of them from before 1980. Line them up and watch the place change.

A rooftop vantage point over Stone Town, Zanzibar, offers this panoramic look across the old town's flat roofs and narrow streets around the turn of the twentieth century, when the island was governed as a British protectorate under its ruling Sultan.

EU: View of a city on Zanzibar / rooftop view (c.1880-1920) 1900 A rooftop vantage point over Stone Town, Zanzibar, offers this panoramic look across the old town's flat roofs and narrow streets around the turn of the twentieth century, when the island was governed as a British protectorate under its ruling Sultan.

EU: Passersby in a street in Zanzibar (c.1880-1920) 1900 Pedestrians move along a narrow street in Stone Town, Zanzibar, in a scene typical of daily life in the island's historic quarter around 1900, an era when the town's coral-stone architecture and trading houses were already centuries old.

EU: Street scene in Zanzibar (c. 1900) 1900 A street scene from Zanzibar City, with figures moving along the roadway, dates from around 1900, offering a glimpse of everyday movement through the old town.

EU: Panorama of Zanzibar harbour (c.1900-1920) 1910 A panoramic view of Zanzibar's harbour, photographed between about 1900 and 1920.

EU: Exterior of the Sultan of Zanzibar palace (c.1900-1920) 1910 The exterior of the Sultan of Zanzibar's palace, photographed between about 1900 and 1920.

EU: Panorama of Zanzibar harbour (c. 1910) 1910 A panoramic view of Zanzibar's harbour, photographed around 1910.

EU: Street near the Old Fort, Zanzibar Stone Town (1961) 1961 A street near the Old Fort in Zanzibar's Stone Town is pictured in this 1961 photograph, close to the 17th-century Omani fortification that still anchors the old town's waterfront today.

EU: Market alley in Zanzibar Stone Town (1961) 1961 A market alley in Zanzibar's Stone Town is shown in this 1961 photograph, one of the narrow trading streets that gave the historic quarter its dense, maze-like layout of shops and dwellings.

EU: Waterfront street by the fort walls, Zanzibar Stone Town (1961) 1961 This 1961 photograph shows a waterfront street running beside the fort walls in Zanzibar's Stone Town, close to the harbour that made the old town a centre of Indian Ocean trade.

EU: Afrikaresa, Zanzibar - street scene by the Old Fort (1961) 1961 A street scene by the Old Fort in Zanzibar's Stone Town is recorded in this 1961 photograph, near one of the island's oldest surviving buildings, constructed by Omani Arabs in the late 17th century.