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This is a 1970s photograph depicting a close-up of the exterior of a shophouse at Joo Chiat Road. It shows the decorative plaster mouldings found on the façade of the upper floor of the shophouse. Joo Chiat Road is named after Chew Joo Chiat. Title devised by Library staff.
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