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This photograph depicts a trishaw rider with a customer on busy, tree-lined road in Singapore. Other vehicles are travelling on the next lane. The background also shows a building with the Chinese characters, "长江戏院" on it. On the left, people are waiting for the green light to walk across the road at this traffic junction. Title devised by Library staff.
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- All rights reserved, Family of Kouo Shang-Wei and National Library Board Singapore 2007
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