Chinese lady selling dried prawns : half-length portrait
- Geography and Travels
- Economy
- Personalities
- Heritage and Culture
- Tyers, R. K. (Ray K.), 1919-
- Lee Kip Lin Collection
- 1950 / 1959
Reproduction Available:
This is a 1950s photograph of a Chinese lady squatting, holding a woven basket full of her goods which she wants to sell. It is revealed in the caption that she is selling dried prawns. Digitized from an album page containing 3 photographs described collectively as "Singapore Market Scenes". 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
- Personalities>>Portraits
- Ethnic Communities
- Women--Singapore--Photographs
- Chinese--Singapore--Photographs
Suggested Pictures
-
Scene at a marketplace : group photograph -
Singapore Market scene : general view -
Chinese ladies : group -
A young Tamby : general view -
The Chinese mine : general view -
Cane basket shops : general view -
Cane baskets : general view -
Planting the shoots : general view -
A mixture of curiosity and attraction : group -
Harvesting the crop : group photograph -
The European mechanical mine : close-up -
Fitters at work : general view -
Trashing the rice : group photograph -
Empire Colne re-named the Katong : general view -
Ploughing the field : full-length portrait [2] -
Early morning stonning the deck : general view -
Awaiting the luggage : general view -
Sikh security guard : full-length portrait -
Harvesting the crop : front view of a farmer -
Ploughing the field : full-length portrait [1] -
A Dakota : general view -
Men selling firewood : general view -
Famous, Raffles Hotel : general view