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This is a 1950s photograph illustrating a scene at a waterfall where a Malayan woman is enjoying her morning bath while another woman is drying off. Part of a compiled album, with a label : "PHOTOGRAPHS BY : R.K. TYERS. Staff STRAITS STEAMSHIP CO., LTD. SINGAPORE." Title transcribed from album.
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- All rights reserved. Lee Kip Lin and National Library Board, Singapore 2009.
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