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This is a 2007 photograph of a shop in Chinatown. Stacks of paper cartons, wooden boxes and plastic baskets can be seen in the shop's interior which bears little furnishing. A lady sits at a low table in front of the shop's rusty metal grilles. Title devised by Library staff.
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