Title
A rickshaw puller
Year/Period
1920s
Region
Singapore
Object Type
Material
Dimension
Image size: L13.6cm X W8.8cm
Accession No.
1991-00362
Collection of
Singapore’s exotic street life and architecture were commonly depicted in picture postcards. Its street hawkers, shophouses, temples and rickshaw-pullers were especially popular. The rickshaw-puller in particular was a popular subject of photography and constituted one of the objects of curiosity for Western tourists unaccustomed to this manual mode of transport.
