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This photograph shows a busy street scene at Chulia Street. Buzzing with business and activity, vehicles such as buses, cars and motorcycles ply the roads. People and pedestrians make their way across the road and along the two and three-storey shophouses on both sides. Title devised by Library staff. Date of creation estimated.
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