Photograph Album Belonging to Plantation Owner Arthur A. Loeb

Title
Photograph Album Belonging to Plantation Owner Arthur A. Loeb
Year/Period
1890s - 1900s
Region
Singapore
Dimension
Object size: Refer to parts
Accession No.
2014-01221

Arthur A. Loeb was a plantation owner who lived in Singapore between the 1890s to the 1900s. This personal album contains photographs of Loeb and his family at their home at Upper Wilkie Street, known at that time as Osborne House, and includes several interior views of the house. Osborne House was used by the Japanese Consulate before WWII, and after the war by the Social Welfare Department for housing juvenile Chinese prostitutes. It was later run as the Mount Emily Girls’ Home and subsequently Wilkie Road Children’s Home.