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The 1992 photograph depicts three-storey shophouses no. 2 and 3 on Chin Chew Street. The shophouses feature French windows on the second floor. Chin Chew Street is known in Chinese as Taufu Koi, i.e. Beancurd Street. 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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