Title
Untitled
Year/Period
around 1870s
Region
Straits Settlements
Dimension
Frame size: 18.6 x 22.5 x 3.4 cm,
Image size: 5.8 x 9.0 cm
Image size: 5.8 x 9.0 cm
Accession No.
2018-00151
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Mr and Mrs Lee Kip Lee
This photograph shows two nyonyas seated between three children. The two young girls wear machine-printed baju panjangs, while the boy is dressed in Chinese robes.Studios were already established across the Strait Settlements and the Dutch East Indies by the 1840s and became increasingly prevalent in the 1850s. During the 1920s, Chinese-owned studios dominated the studio photography trade in Southeast Asia.
