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  • Grocery shop : close-up

    Economy · Streets and Places · Tan, Chun Wei · Little Red Dot Collection {18549142}
    This 2009 photograph shows a close-up of a grocery shop located along Buffalo Road. A display of vegetable including tomatoes, brinjals, bitter gourds, and carrots, can be seen in the foreground. Title devised by Library staff.

  • NTUC FairPrice supermarket : general view [1]

    Economy · Streets and Places · Tan, Chun Wei · Little Red Dot Collection {18549142}
    This 2009 photograph shows a NTUC (National Trades Union Congress) FairPrice supermarket located at 114 Aljunied Avenue 2. Title devised by Library staff.

  • Dunlop Street, grocery shop : general view [2]

    Economy · Streets and Places · Tan, Chun Wei · Little Red Dot Collection {18549142}
    This 2009 photograph shows a grocery shop located in a shophouse in Dunlop Street. The sign for Dunlop Street can be seen in the middle of the photograph. Title devised by Library staff.

  • Circuit Road, provision shop : general view

    Economy · Tan, Chun Wei · Little Red Dot Collection {18549142}
    This 2009 photograph shows the exterior of Ng Teo Guan provision shop which is located at 37 Circuit Road. Title devised by Library staff.

  • NTUC FairPrice supermarket : general view [2]

    Economy · Streets and Places · Tan, Chun Wei · Little Red Dot Collection {18549142}
    This 2009 photograph shows a NTUC (National Trades Union Congress) FairPrice supermarket located at 50 Havelock Road. Title devised by Library staff.

  • Tanglin Halt Road, Sheng Siong Supermarket : general view

    Economy · Streets and Places · Tan, Chun Wei · Little Red Dot Collection {18549142}
    This 2009 photograph shows Sheng Siong Supermarket, located at 88 Tanglin Halt Road. Title devised by Library staff.

  • Dunlop Street, grocery shop : general view [1]

    Economy · Streets and Places · Tan, Chun Wei · Little Red Dot Collection {18549142}
    This 2009 photograph shows a grocery shop located in a shophouse in Dunlop Street. The sign for Dunlop Street can be seen on the right of the photograph. Title devised by Library staff.

  • Keeping an eye on things : general view

    Economy · Pang, Gerald
    This is a picture of an elderly lady tending to a dried goods stall at the Victoria Wholesale Centre. Title devised by Library staff.

  • Dried goods : side view

    Economy · Heritage and Culture · Pang, Gerald
    This photograph shows rows of dried goods such as shrimp, chili, cuttlefish and salted fish on sale at the Victoria Street Wholesale Market. Most goods are sold by weight, while some are prepacked and sold at a fixed price, such as the dried bean curd and seaweed. Title devised by...

  • Cabbages, melons : close-up

    Economy · Pang, Gerald
    This is a picture of cabbages and winter melon gourds for sale at a stall along Campbell Lane, in the Little India area. Title devised by Library staff.

  • Vegetables and flower garlands : general view

    Economy · Pang, Gerald
    This photographs shows a stall selling vegetables inside the Little India Arcade. This stall has beetroots, strings of garlic, long beans, prickly pears, snake gourds, potatoes and a lot more for sale. In the background, some flower garlands can be seen handing on bamboo poles. Title devised by Library staff.

  • Old groceries store : close-up

    Streets and Places · Economy · Pang, Gerald
    This photograph shows an traditional grocery store, Chak Soon, in Victoria Street Wholesale Market, with its cartons of goods piled at the entrance and high up on shelf against the wall. Title devised by Library staff.

  • Joss sticks, in a banana : general view

    Heritage and Culture · Economy · Pang, Gerald
    This is a picture of joss sticks stuck into a banana, amongst a pile of tomatoes for sale at a stall, in Little India. Title devised by Library staff.

  • Girl outside grocery shop at Neil Street, 1968 : full-length portrait

    Streets and Places · Economy · Heritage and Culture
    A little girl stands along the five-foot way outside a grocery shop at Neil Road. Pictured are the heavy, sliding, metal grilles that were typically installed at old provision shops. The pillars along the walkway often advertise the business the shops are dealing with. Donated by Chee Yoke Leung, and...

  • Dried goods : general view

    Economy · Heritage and Culture · Pang, Gerald
    This photograph shows rows of dried goods, such as dried shrimps, on sale at the Victoria Street Wholesale Market. These goods are sold by weight. Title devised by Library staff.

  • Carrots and gourds : close-up

    Economy · Heritage and Culture · Pang, Gerald
    This photograph shows a vegetable stall in Little India, selling carrots, gourd, onions, beetroot, garlic and others. Title devised by Library staff.

  • Shelves of goods : general view

    Economy · Pang, Gerald
    This is a picture of goods such canned food and sauces displayed on shelves in an old groceries store at the Victoria Street Wholesale Centre. Title devised by Library staff.

  • South Bridge Road no. 229 : close-up

    Economy · Streets and Places
    This is a 1992 photograph depicting house 229, opposite Mosque Street, on South Bridge Road. This is a traditional provision shop cum medical hall. The road mentioned, which runs from the Elgin Bridge over the Singapore River, was built by convict labour in 1833. Title devised by Library staff.
    Reproduction Available

  • Anamalai Avenue shop : exterior

    Streets and Places · Economy
    This 1993 photograph shows the exterior of a provision shop, located at Anamalai Avenue (near Bukit Timah Road). Anamalai was named after a place in Tamil Nadu, India. Most of the shops in the area have been demolished. Title devised by Library staff.
    Reproduction Available

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