Title
The Panoramic View of Raffles Hotel 1920s
Region
Singapore
Object Type
Material
Dimension
Frame size: 36.7 x 69.8 x 1.6 cm,
Image size: 23.9 x 57.1 cm
Image size: 23.9 x 57.1 cm
Accession No.
2014-00121
Collection of
This is a panoramic photograph of the Raffles Hotel in the 1920s. The Raffles Hotel was a colonial style hotel. Initially a privately owned beach house built in the 1830s, it became Emerson's Hotel in 1878 and opened as the Raffles Hotel in 1887. The new main building, pictured here, was built in 1899 by architect John Bidwell. This photograph was taken bu F.T. Hill-Cottingham, and shows the Raffles Institute on the left, as well as Beach Road and the sea front. This photograph was previously displayed in the Raffles Hotel Museum.
