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1. Aerial view of Singapore in 1960, Merdeka Bridge, harbour with junk boats
2. Pan American and other commercial buildings at Robinson Road, farm in foreground and Housing Development Board construction in background
3. Vegetation in farm, farmer watering plants, fowl, children rolling in tilled earth, woman spreading duck feed, boy shading young plants with palm leaves, a dove cot
4. Farm house, children coming home from school, farmer tilling the earth, woman washing clothes with pond water, girl sunning the laundry, farmer planting seedlings of vegetables, watering plants and adjusting the nozzles of watering cans, collects water hyacinths for cooking into pig food, transfers mud from pond to farm soil, boys mixing pig feed with water hyacinths
5. Boy eating a newly ripened jackfruit
6. Pigs being fed on farm
7. Collyer Quay, man taking boat to work, timber from Sumatra being made into raft for the towing of goods, men building ships
8. Boys fishing on the Causeway, washing the fish and tying them up together
9. Singapore island, villagers making a fish trap