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Zanzibar City (Stone Town) 1961 2 photos of this spot

2 photographs taken at the same spot in Zanzibar City (Stone Town), spanning 1961 — 2 of them from before 1980. Line them up and watch the place change.

This 1961 photograph shows village houses with thatched roofs in Zanzibar, reflecting the coral-rag walls and palm-thatch roofing common in residential building on the island at the time, distinct from Stone Town's masonry architecture.

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EU: Village houses with thatched roofs, Zanzibar (1961), Zanzibar City (Stone Town), 1961
EU: Village houses with thatched roofs, Zanzibar (1961) 1961 This 1961 photograph shows village houses with thatched roofs in Zanzibar, reflecting the coral-rag walls and palm-thatch roofing common in residential building on the island at the time, distinct from Stone Town's masonry architecture.
EU: Street near the Old Fort, Zanzibar (1961), Zanzibar City (Stone Town), 1961
EU: Street near the Old Fort, Zanzibar (1961) 1961 A street near the Old Fort in Zanzibar is shown in this 1961 photograph. The Old Fort, built by Omani Arabs at the end of the 17th century on the site of an earlier Portuguese chapel, remains one of Stone Town's oldest surviving structures.