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  • Visitors at Tiger Balm Garden, 1960s [2]

    Sports and Recreation · Daniel, David Danny
    This photograph shows a group of visitors to Tiger Balm Garden or Haw Par Villa, looking at a diorama behind a high wired fence. The women are wearing traditional Malay costumes. Photograph taken between 1960-1962. Title devised by Library staff.

  • Diorama at Tiger Balm Garden, 1960s [4]

    Arts · Sports and Recreation · Daniel, David Danny
    This photograph shows a diorama depicting a scene from Chinese mythology at Tiger Balm Garden or Haw Par Villa. The scene shows three human figures and another figure of what seemed to be a half human-half animal. Photograph taken between 1960-1962. Title devised by Library staff.

  • Diorama at Tiger Balm Garden, 1960s [1]

    Arts · Sports and Recreation · Daniel, David Danny
    This photograph shows a diorama depicting a scene from Chinese mythology at Tiger Balm Garden or Haw Par Villa. The scene shows the sculpture of a man with a long pole and a woman emerging from a shell, with sculptures of animals around them. Photograph taken between 1960-1962. Title devised...

  • Repair works at Tiger Balm Garden, 1960s

    Arts · Sports and Recreation · Daniel, David Danny
    This photograph shows three men doing restoration works on a sculpture at Tiger Balm Garden or Haw Par Villa. The area is cordoned off with wooden scaffolding and covered with a thatched roof. Photograph taken between 1960-1962. Title devised by Library staff.

  • Diorama at Tiger Balm Garden, 1960s [2]

    Arts · Sports and Recreation · Daniel, David Danny
    This photograph shows a diorama depicting a scene from Chinese mythology at Tiger Balm Garden or Haw Par Villa. The scene shows two humans and one half animal-half human sculptures. Photograph taken between 1960-1962. Title devised by Library staff.

  • Visitors at Tiger Balm Garden, 1960s [1]

    Arts · Sports and Recreation · Daniel, David Danny
    This photograph shows a group of five visitors to Tiger Balm Gardens. The group consists of two men, two women and a baby. The women are dressed in traditional Malay costume and one of the men is wearing the traditional Malay black headgear or songkok. At the background is a...

  • Diorama at Tiger Balm Garden, 1960s [3]

    Arts · Sports and Recreation · Daniel, David Danny
    This photograph shows a diorama depicting a scene from Chinese mythology at Tiger Balm Garden or Haw Par Villa. The scene shows four figures on a tower, and a handcuffed figure at the bottom. Photograph taken between 1960-1962. Title devised by Library staff.

  • Gateway to Tiger Balm Garden, 1960s

    Arts · Sports and Recreation · Daniel, David Danny
    This photograph shows the entrance gateway at Tiger Balm Garden or Haw Par Villa. It has a multi-layered roof and upturned finials. Symbolic flowers and tigers decorate the structure. A few people are seen entering the Garden. Photograph taken between 1960-1962. Title devised by Library staff.

  • Pagoda at Tiger Balm Garden, 1960s

    Sports and Recreation · Arts · Daniel, David Danny
    This photograph shows a four-tiered pagoda at Tiger Balm Gardens or Haw Par Villa. Atop the pagoda is a sitting Buddha. Photograph taken between 1960-1962. Title devised by Library staff.

  • Pagoda at Tiger Balm Garden, mid-1970s

    Arts · Sports and Recreation
    The photograph shows the exterior view of a five-tier Chinese pagoda at Tiger Balm Garden or Haw Par Villa (虎豹別墅). Title devised by Library staff.

  • Diorama at Tiger Balm Garden, mid-1970s

    Arts · Sports and Recreation
    This photograph shows a close-up view of a diorama depicting a scene at Tiger Balm Garden or Haw Par Villa (虎豹別墅). Title devised by Library staff.

  • Spanish dancers at Tiger Balm Garden, mid-1970s

    Arts · Sports and Recreation
    This photograph shows the statue of two Spanish dancers at Tiger Balm Garden or Haw Par Villa (虎豹別墅). Title devised by Library staff.

  • Tiger Balm Garden, Confucius statue, mid-1970s

    Arts · Sports and Recreation
    This photograph shows a close-up view of a statue of Confucius at Tiger Balm Garden or Haw Par Villa (虎豹別墅). Title devised by Library staff.

  • Diorama at Tiger Balm Garden, mid-1970s

    Arts · Sports and Recreation
    This photograph shows a diorama depicting a scene from the Eight Immortals Cross the Sea (八仙過海) at Tiger Balm Garden or Haw Par Villa (虎豹別墅). It shows the battle between the eight immortals and the soldiers of the East Sea. Part of the caption on the diorama reads "Stories from...

  • Diorama at Tiger Balm Garden, mid-1970s

    Arts · Sports and Recreation
    This photograph shows the statue of a Chinese deity on top a pagoda roof at Tiger Balm Garden or Haw Par Villa (虎豹別墅). Title devised by Library staff.

  • Diorama at Tiger Balm Garden, mid-1970s

    Arts · Sports and Recreation
    This photograph shows a diorama of a few women in swimwear and bikinis having fun by the side of a river at Tiger Balm Garden or Haw Par Villa (虎豹別墅). Title devised by Library staff.

  • Pagoda with Sakyamuni statue at Tiger Balm Garden, mid-1970s

    Arts · Sports and Recreation
    The photograph shows Buddha Sakyamuni statue sits atop a pagoda at Tiger Balm Garden or Haw Par Villa (虎豹別墅). Title devised by Library staff.

  • Diorama at Tiger Balm Garden, mid-1970s

    Arts · Sports and Recreation
    This photograph shows a diorama of a farm scene at Tiger Balm Garden or Haw Par Villa (虎豹別墅). One of the farmers is working the water buffalo at the foreground. Title devised by Library staff.

  • Diorama at Tiger Balm Garden, mid-1970s

    Arts · Sports and Recreation
    The photograph shows a large-scale diorama with statues of sea lions, frogs, turtles and snakes at Tiger Balm Garden or Haw Par Villa (虎豹別墅) at Pasir Panjang Road. Title devised by Library staff.

  • Tiger Balm Garden Thai dancer statue, mid-1970s

    Arts · Sports and Recreation
    This photograph shows a close-up view of the statue of a Thai dancer at Tiger Balm Garden or Haw Par Villa (虎豹別墅). Title devised by Library staff.

  • Tiger Balm Garden, Laughing Buddha statue, mid-1970s

    Arts · Sports and Recreation
    This photograph shows a statue of the Laughing Buddha, also known as Buddha Maitreya, at Tiger Balm Garden or Haw Par Villa (虎豹別墅). Title devised by Library staff.

  • Tiger Balm Garden entrance, mid-1970s

    Arts · Sports and Recreation
    This photograph shows the sloping main entrance to Tiger Balm Garden or Haw Par Villa (虎豹別墅) at Pasir Panjang Road. It has a multi-layered roof of orange and green tiles and upturned finials. Symbolic flowers and tigers decorate the structure. Title devised by Library staff.

  • Diorama at Tiger Balm Garden, mid-1970s

    Arts · Sports and Recreation
    This photograph shows a diorama of Chinese deities and sea creatures having a battle at Tiger Balm Garden or Haw Par Villa (虎豹別墅). Title devised by Library staff.

  • Thai dancer diorama at Thai Corner in Haw Par Villa, 1968

    Arts · Sports and Recreation · David Randall Gibson
    This photograph shows a diorama of a Thai dancer at Haw Par Villa. Original photograph created by David Randall Gibson. Description by Library staff. Title devised by Library staff.

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