Street scene in Sri Lanka

A street scene in Sri Lanka [then Ceylon] of crowded roads of people walking, some carrying baskets on their heads, some carrying umbrellas, and bullock carts waiting, rickshaws being pulled, and many covered wagons with bowed bonnets parked alongside the road. The market buildings down each side of the street have roofs of curved, clay tiles. Some of the signs hanging on the outside surfaces of a market on the corner on the left side of the photograph read, "Stephens Inks, Blue, Black, Copying Ink" and "Oilmanstore, shoes & slippers."