This is a photograph of an oral recitation convention and it shows the participants on stage with the audience looking on. This photograph is part of the collection donated by Edwin Thumboo to NLB. Title devised by Library staff.

Credit Line

From the Edwin Thumboo Collection. All rights reserved, Edwin Thumboo and National Library Board, Singapore 2008

Subjects

• Arts>>Literature
• Recitations--Photographs
• Oral reading--Photographs
• Congresses and conventions--Singapore--Photographs
• Language and literature>>Rhetoric>>Public speaking