EU: Quartel em Zanzibar (fort barracks) (1901) through time

Zanzibar (Stone Town) 1900–1901 4 photos of this spot

4 photographs taken at the same spot in Zanzibar (Stone Town), spanning 1900–1901 — 4 of them from before 1980. Line them up and watch the place change.

A rooftop view over Zanzibar City, taken around 1900, looks out across the town's densely packed stone buildings toward the harbour beyond, a vantage point favored by photographers of the period.

EU: Gezicht op een stad op Zanzibar (rooftop view, c.1900) (1900) 1900 A rooftop view over Zanzibar City, taken around 1900, looks out across the town's densely packed stone buildings toward the harbour beyond, a vantage point favored by photographers of the period.

EU: Voorbijgangers in een straat te Zanzibar, near Hotel dAngleterre (1900) 1900 Pedestrians walk near the Hotel d'Angleterre in this 1900 street photograph from Zanzibar City, a hotel that catered to visitors arriving at the island's main port.

EU: Voorbijgangers in een straat te Zanzibar, near Zanzibar Stores (1900) 1900 This 1900 photograph shows passersby on a Zanzibar City street close to the Zanzibar Stores trading house, underscoring the commercial life of the old town.

EU: Quartel em Zanzibar (fort barracks) (1901) 1901 Fort barracks in Zanzibar City, photographed in 1901, part of the old fortifications near the harbor that predate the British protectorate established on the island in 1890, when Zanzibar was still ruled nominally by its own Sultan under British oversight.