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This photograph shows the profile of an elderly woman seated on a long black stone bench outside Tanjong Pagar MRT station near Wallich Street, as a young woman walks by in the background. Black stone globes on the bench top used as seat dividers are part of the bench's design. Title devised by Library staff.
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