This is a pre-1914 photograph from E. A. Brown's collection. It shows several young Chinese schoolboys sitting on low stools eating food sold by a street hawker. They are dressed in school uniform, of white tunic and trousers with straw boater hat. Customers patronising another street hawker are also seen in the background. No date of creation provided. Title devised by Library staff. Information contributed by Richard Hale.

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From the Edwin A. Brown Collection. All rights reserved, Celia Mary Ferguson and National Library Board, Singapore 2008

Subjects

• Commerce and Industry
• Commerce and Industry>>Labour and Employment>>Vanishing Trades
• Ethnic Communities>>Food
• Cookery>>International and regional cooking>>Chinese
• Street vendors--Photographs
• Dinners and dining--Photographs
• Schoolboys--Photographs