Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Building

Collections
1070456
Title
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Building
Year/Period
c. 1910
Region
Singapore
Object Type
postcards
Material
ink, paper (fiber product)
Technique
printing (process)
Dimension
Image size: 8.8 x 13.9 cm
Accession No.
1994-05593
Collection of
National Museum of Singapore

The elaborate Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Building was completed in 1892. One of the three British banks that controlled much of the banking business in Singapore during the early 1900s, the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank was founded in Hongkong in the 1860s.