This is a 1950s photograph of shophouses selling cane baskets. The long nose-shaped baskets located on the far right of the picture are usually used to transport pigs. Digitized from an album page containing 5 photographs described collectively as "Cane Basket shops". 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

• Baskets--Photographs
• Shophouses--Singapore--Photographs