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Lim Hoe Chiang Ltd store wrapper

Title

Year/Period

1920s - 1930s

Region

Singapore

Material

Paper

Dimension

Object size: 42.3 x 26.0 cm

Accession No.

2018-01149

Collection of

National Museum of Singapore

This paper wrapper features the logo, details and an illustration of the shopfront of Lim Ho Chiang Ltd. Located at Tanjong Pagar Road, it was a general store established in 1904 that sold and marketed, among other goods, coffee and cigarettes. The illustrated shopgfront shows with large billboards on top of the building advertising Alpine condensed milk and Globe coffee.