Title
A Malay lady buying food from a street vendor
Year/Period
Late 19th-early 20th century
Region
Singapore/Malaysia
Dimension
Image size: L14cm X W9.1cm
Accession No.
1991-00384
Collection of
NLB Type
Postcard
With their cooking pots tied to the poles, such itinerant hawkers, or 'travelling cookshops', were a common sight during the late 19th and early 20th century. Selling drinks and vegetables, cobbling, pulling rickshaws and even telling fortunes were some of the other street occupations the poor and illiterate took up to earn a living.
