Boat Quay, coffee shop : general view



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28 Mar 1993

Photographed By Lee, Kip Lin

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This 1993 photograph shows a coffee shop at Boat Quay. The coffee shop has wooden French windows at the upper floors. Boat Quay was built in 1842, with granite steps running along the Singapore River, where small boats would deliver goods from ships to the godowns and warehouses along the quay. Title devised by library staff.


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Coffee shops--Singapore--Photographs

Shophouses--Singapore--Photographs

Commercial buildings--Singapore--Photographs

Boat Quay (Singapore)--Photographs

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Commercial buildings

Streets

Streets and Places

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All rights reserved. Lee Kip Lin and National Library Board, Singapore 2009.

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