Title
View of High Street from Fort Canning
Year/Period
1890
Region
Singapore
Object Type
Material
Dimension
Image size: L:20 * W: 25.7cm
Accession No.
1996-00037
Collection of
This photograph, taken from Fort Canning Hill, depicts a view of High Street. The road was named as such due to its topographically elevated position. Raffles Place and High Street developed as the key centres of Singapore's retail sector and continued to remain so until the 1960s.
