On back: “Tamils or Hindoos from India/ (?)tham’s wedding aug 2, 1913 / Every person in the picture is India./ (?) at a’s left was married two weeks previous to a man she had never seen before. She came from India to marry him here. / 3 (?) married the groom are his sons./ Behind a is her new stepdaughter. / at groom’s right is a teacher in govt.H.S../ At the right, a Hindu. / Tallest of the three little girls in front is my Sag(?)thalah, others are her sisters. / Woman with white hair at right wears only a sari. / Don’t miss the caste marks on foreheads of some. ./ White race / B.E. (?) / St Cloud (?)”

This photograph shows a group of Indians or Hindus, with the bride and groom in western wedding attire. A note was written on the back of the photograph. This large group of photographs provides important visual documentation of the fashion, studio photography and lifestyle of Peranakans of the Straits Settlements and Indonesia in the late 19th to mid-20th centuries. The collection also allows study of different photographic techniques and covers a wide range of themes, including changing fashions (from baju panjang and baju kurong to kebaya and cheongsam), festive celebrations (weddings, funerals, ancestral rites, Chinese New Year), interiors, transportation and children.

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