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This is a 1950s photograph depicting a few Malayan cargo ship sailors who are attempting to remove the ropes and cloth around the bull, after hoisting it onto the ship, in the middle of a makeshift barn filled with hay. Part of a compiled album, with a label : "PHOTOGRAPHS BY : R.K. TYERS. Staff STRAITS STEAMSHIP CO., LTD. SINGAPORE." Title transcribed from album. Date of creation estimate. Title devised by Library staff.
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- All rights reserved. Lee Kip Lin and National Library Board, Singapore 2009.
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