Title
Chinese provision shop
Year/Period
1950s-1970s
Region
Singapore or Malaysia
Object Type
Material
Dimension
Image size: 25.1 x 21.4 cm
Accession No.
2005-00688
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Verena Tay
Provision shops sell everyday items such as rice, canned goods and detergent. Most provision shops at the time worked on a credit system, where regular and trusted customers would buy goods from the shop on credit. Shop owners would have a book to record items which the customers bought, and the customers would only pay a few months later.
