"No. 13"

Title

"No. 13"

Year/Period

1951

Region

Penang

Object Type

gelatin silver prints, postcards

Material

photographic gelatin, silver gelatin paper, paper (fiber product)

Technique

gelatin silver process, printing (process)

Dimension

Image size: (with border) 8.4 x 13.5 cm,
Image size: 7.7 x 12.9 cm

Accession No.

2022-00278

Collection of

Peranakan Museum

Credit Line

Gift of Mr and Mrs Lee Kip Lee

This photograph in postcard format shows a Chinese Peranakan wedding procession.This photograph is part of a series of 74 photographs documenting a Peranakan wedding held in Penang in 1951. 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. With improvements in camera technology, it became possible to take photographs without the assistance of a studio in the first decades of the 20th century.