This 1986 photograph shows a shophouse, at no. 12 Prinsep Street. A sign for "Pacific Drug Store" can be seen near the roof of the shophouse. Prinsep Street is named after Charles Prinsep, a lawyer who owned a big nutmeg plantation in the area in the 1850s. Prinsep Street is off Orchard Road. Title devised by Library staff.

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

Subjects

• Architecture and Landscape>>Streets and Places
• Architecture and Landscape>>Building Types>>Commercial Buildings
• Streets--Singapore--Photographs
• Shophouses--Singapore--Photographs