Title
Tan Tek Hiang and family
Year/Period
around 1910s
Region
Java, Mojoekerto
Material
Dimension
Object size: 28.5 x 34.5 cm,
Image size: 21.6 x 27.8 cm
Image size: 21.6 x 27.8 cm
Accession No.
2015-00967
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Mr and Mrs Lee Kip Lee
This photograph shows a Peranakan family in front of a house with the sign ‘Tan Teck Hiang’ on the pillar. 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.
