Title
Group photo of Lee Chuan Neo, Tan Hong Neo and Wee Bit Chay
Year/Period
Ca. 1930s
Region
Unknown
Object Type
Material
Dimension
Image size: 6.6 x 11.0 cm
Accession No.
2021-00439
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Mona Tan
This is a group photo of Peranakans, Lee Chuan Neo, (1912 – 1989), Tan Hong Neo and Wee Bit Chay. As was fashionable of the time, women had short hair and wore cheongsams, while men wore western suits. Tan and Wee were married in 1933 and Lee was their sister-in-law, as her husband Tan Chong Beng (1908 – 1975) was Tan Hong Neo's brother. Tan Hong Neo and Wee Bit Chay were the birth parents of the donor, Mona Tan. She was subsequently adopted by Lee Chuan Neo and Tan Chong Beng after the premature death of her father, Wee Bit Chay.
