Title
Indian washmen
Year/Period
Late 19th-early 20th century
Region
Singapore
Dimension
Image size: 8.8 x 13.7 cm
Accession No.
2000-06788
Collection of
Indian washmen, or ‘dhobies’ (launderymen), would routinely leave laundered clothes to dry out in the open in the Dhoby Ghaut area. They would wash the clothes of residents in a stream that ran down from Orchard Road into the sea.
