No ship chandler puts anything across this man : general view
- Organisations
- Economy
- Heritage and Culture
- Tyers, R. K. (Ray K.), 1919-
- Lee Kip Lin Collection
- 1950 / 1959
Reproduction Available:
This is a 1950s photograph illustrating a bespectacled Chinese ship chandler, observing a leg of meat, while another Chinese sailor looks on. A ship chandler is a retail dealer who deals with special supplies or equipment for ships. 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
From the Lee Kip Lin Collection. All rights reserved. Lee Kip Lin and National Library Board, Singapore 2009.
Subjects
- Commerce and Industry
- Ethnic Communities
- Ship chandlers--Singapore--Photographs
- Weighing instruments--Singapore--Photographs
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