Title
A Chinese shophouse
Year/Period
1920s
Region
Singapore
Material
Dimension
Frame size: 9 x 13.7 cm,
Image size: 8.6 x 13 cm
Image size: 8.6 x 13 cm
Accession No.
1995-00016
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.
