Image size: 49.5 x 39.0 cm,
Object size: (backing board) 54.0 x 44.0 cm
This is a framed studio photograph of Tan Swan Nio and Siem Tjiong Nio, proprietors of 'Jamu Ibu', a jamu business. Both women are dressed in sarong kebaya.Peranakans commissioned photographs to document their families and important life events such as marriages and deaths. They also commissioned photographs to record their involvement in business enterprises, and in social causes such as schools and academic societies, religious groups, and in community and cultural associations.