This platinum print and plastic film negative show a horse hitched to a carriage and its coachman.Cellulose nitrate film was widely used from 1889 until the 1950s when it was banned and substituted by cellulose acetate. This was because of the many fires which resulted from the highly flammable quality of cellulose nitrate film.Photography was a transformational technology when it was first invented around 1839 and was quickly embraced by the Peranakans as soon as it arrived in Southeast Asia around 1841. This group of photographs reveals the longstanding relationship between Peranakans and photography which continues till today.
