This is a 1950s photograph of four Chinese ladies, dressed in traditional Cheongsams, posing for the camera. In the background, there is a group of people who are probably waiting at a hotel lobby in Singapore. Digitized from an album page containing 9 photographs described collectively as "Malayan Airways". Part of a compiled album, with a label : "PHOTOGRAPHS BY : R.K. TYERS. Staff STRAITS STEAMSHIP CO., LTD. SINGAPORE." Date of creation estimated. Title transcribed from album.

Credit Line

From the Lee Kip Lin Collection. All rights reserved. Lee Kip Lin and National Library Board, Singapore 2009.

Subjects

• Ethnic Communities
• Women--Singapore--Photographs
• Chinese--Singapore--Photographs