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How Dhaka Shopped in the 1950s: Bazaars and New Market
Photographs from 1952–53 reveal Dhaka's crowded bazaars, tailors and shoemakers as New Market was being built.
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How Dhaka Shopped in the 1950s: Bazaars and New Market
Photographs from 1952–53 reveal Dhaka's crowded bazaars, tailors and shoemakers as New Market was being built.
Explore the StoryClarence Woodrow Sorensen (1952) | Edna Schaus Sorensen and Clarence W. Sorensen Collection, UWM Libraries | Public Domain
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How Dhaka Shopped in the 1950s: Bazaars & the Birth of New Market
What did shopping in Dhaka look like before modern shopping malls? Archival photographs from 1952 and 1953 reveal the ev...
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