SHOPHOUSE ALONG A STREET IN CHINATOWN
Upper levels of a shophouse in the Chinatown area. Men engage in conversation on one level while children have a meal a level below them. An urn for religious worship hangs outside the window. A wooden box (right) based on the pulley method is used to haul food bought from street hawkers to the upper floors.
1960
19980005239 - 0045
2758/09/11
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Ministry of Information and the Arts Collection, courtesy of National Archives of Singapore

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Upper levels of a shophouse in the Chinatown area. Men engage in conversation on one level while children have a meal a level below them. An urn for religious worship hangs outside the window. A wooden box (right) based on the pulley method is used to haul food bought from street hawkers to the upper floors.

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