This is a 1950s photograph of an old Malay woman carrying a young child. In the album, the photographer inscribes below the picture "The past, age and wisdom with the future who doesn't know what its' all about". Part of a compiled album, with a label : "PHOTOGRAPHS BY : R.K. TYERS. Staff STRAITS STEAMSHIP CO., LTD. SINGAPORE." Title transcribed from album. Date of creation estimated.

Credit Line

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

Subjects

• Malays--Singapore--Photographs
• Older women--Singapore--Photographs
• Boys--Singapore--Photographs