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National Library Board Annual Report 2023 / 2024 Reading, Learning and Discovering: Anytime, Anywhere
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This evocative collection of more than 150 picture postcards offers insight into Japanese society in Singapore in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from the Lim Shao Bin Collection in the National Library, Singapore.
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Paperback ed. published: 2009, with ISBN: 9781405350976. Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-188) and index.