This is a pre-1914 photograph from E. A. Brown's collection. It shows a wooden clog seller wearing a traditional conical hat, squatting by the roadside in front of a shophouse. Wooden clog bases are placed in two baskets on the ground, on either side of the vendor. A carrying pole used for transporting the wooden clogs is placed in one of the baskets. No date of creation provided. Title devised by Library staff. Information contributed by Richard Hale.

Credit Line

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

Subjects

• Commerce and Industry>>Trade
• Commerce and Industry>>Labour and Employment>>Vanishing Trades
• Business, finance and industry>>Industry>>Services>>Retail and wholesale
• Street vendors--Photographs
• Retail trade--Photographs
• Clogs--Photographs