EU: Gezicht op een stad op Zanzibar (c.1880-1920) through time

Zanzibar City 1900–1961 12 photos of this spot

12 photographs taken at the same spot in Zanzibar City, spanning 1900–1961 — 12 of them from before 1980. Line them up and watch the place change.

Zanzibar City's low skyline of stone houses is the subject of this town view, made sometime between 1880 and 1920, during the decades when the island was administered as a British protectorate.

EU: Gezicht op een stad op Zanzibar (c.1880-1920) 1900 Zanzibar City's low skyline of stone houses is the subject of this town view, made sometime between 1880 and 1920, during the decades when the island was administered as a British protectorate.

EU: Voorbijgangers in een straat te Zanzibar (c.1880-1920) 1900 A quiet street in Zanzibar City, with a few passersby, is documented in this photograph from between roughly 1880 and 1920, showing the narrow lanes typical of the old town.

EU: Gezicht op een stad op Zanzibar (View of a town in Zanzibar) (1900) 1900 The rooftops of Zanzibar City spread out in this 1900 view of the town, taken from a raised viewpoint typical of the period's panoramic photography of colonial ports.

EU: Voorbijgangers in een straat te Zanzibar (i) (1900) 1900 Residents of Zanzibar City walk along a street in this 1900 photograph, one of a pair of similar street views taken at the time to document the town's daily life.

EU: Voorbijgangers in een straat te Zanzibar (ii) (1900) 1900 A companion image to a similar street scene, this 1900 photograph again shows passersby moving through Zanzibar City's narrow lanes, part of a pair of near-identical views taken the same day.

EU: Panorama van de haven van Zanzibar (c.1900-1920) 1910 Zanzibar City's harbour captured in a panoramic photograph from between about 1900 and 1920.

EU: Exterieur van het paleis van de sultan van Zanzibar (Sultan Palace exterior) (1910) 1910 The exterior of the Sultan of Zanzibar's palace in Zanzibar City, photographed in 1910.

EU: Afrikaresa, Zanzibar - village houses (1961) 1961 Village houses in Zanzibar City appear in this 1961 photograph, showing the modest coastal building style that stood apart from Stone Town's stone architecture, built instead from local coral rag and thatch.

EU: Afrikaresa, Zanzibar - waterfront with dhow (1961) 1961 A dhow rests near the waterfront in Zanzibar City in this 1961 image, set against the backdrop of Stone Town's harbour, the historic trading quarter that grew wealthy on Indian Ocean commerce during the era of the Omani sultanate.

EU: Afrikaresa, Zanzibar - Stone Town waterfront skyline (1961) 1961 The waterfront skyline of Zanzibar's Stone Town is visible in this 1961 photograph, taken from the harbour where dhows once anchored after voyages along the East African coast and across the Indian Ocean.

EU: Afrikaresa, Zanzibar - moored dhows (1961) 1961 Several dhows lie moored in Zanzibar City's harbour in this 1961 photograph, part of the port's traditional sailing fleet that had linked the island to trading partners across the western Indian Ocean for generations.

EU: Afrikaresa, Zanzibar - harbour with launches (1961) 1961 Small launches share the harbour with sailing craft in this 1961 photograph of Zanzibar City's waterfront, showing the mix of traditional and motorised vessels that worked the port in the early 1960s.