Women performing a play in the interior of a house

Pasted on the same album page, these nine photographs show various recurring figures in two rooms. With continuous improvement of camera technology, it became possible to take photographs outside a studio in the first decades of the 20th century. Many middle-class families collected photographs in albums as a way of documenting family life, or documentasi keluarga.

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Interior of a house

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Commemorative magazine published for the Singapore Arts Theatre play titled ‘Women’s Apartment (Nuzi Gongyu)’