“Picnic at Tanah Merah/Paul – Sam – Samuel Dee – Self/Betty Loke – May – Frances Leong – Hilary/August 1953”

This photograph shows a group sitting on a lawn. It is accompanied by captions ‘Picnic at Tanah Merah’ and ‘Paul, Sam, Samuel Dec, Self, Betty Loke, May, Frances Leong, Hilary. August 1953’. 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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