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This is a 1982 photograph depicting Merchant Road with buildings, at the corner of New Market Road. Merchant Road, a place where many traders and merchants used to reside, is near Havelock Road. Title devised by Library staff.
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- All rights reserved. Lee Kip Lin and National Library Board, Singapore 2009.
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