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  • Newton river side, Singapore

    Streets and Places
    This is a black-and-white postcard with a photograph of a man with four water buffaloes in a shallow river. Part of a building can be seen in the background. The back of the postcard is unwritten. Date of creation estimated.
  • Boat Quay, Singapore

    Streets and Places · Sports and Recreation
    This postcard features a colour picture depicting a scene of Boat Quay. In the picture, the Singapore River is full of boats. There is a bridge that spans across the river, and on both sides of the river there are multi-storey buildings. The back of the postcard is unwritten. Date...
  • Anderson Bridge, Singapore

    Streets and Places · Sports and Recreation
    This postcard from the “Lim Shao Bin Collection” features a photograph that shows a view of Anderson Bridge in Singapore, taken from the bank of Singapore River. It is a vehicular bridge with steel arches, and two archways at each end. In the river, there are sampan boats underneath the...
  • Boat Quay, Singapore

    Streets and Places · Sports and Recreation
    This postcard from the “Lim Shao Bin Collection” features a photograph that shows a scene of Boat Quay, in Singapore. In the photograph, the Singapore River is full of boats. There is a bridge that spans across the river, and on both sides of the river there are multi-storey buildings....
  • Tanjong Katong village, Singapore

    Streets and Places · Nature and Environment
    This postcard from the “Lim Shao Bin Collection” features a photograph that shows a scene in a village in Tanjong Katong, Singapore. It is a rural area, with a few wooden buildings. The buildings are built on grassy ground, and surrounded by trees. A clothes-line is tied between two trees....
  • Boat Quay and its prosperous state, Singapore

    Sports and Recreation · Streets and Places
    This postcard from the “Lim Shao Bin Collection” features a photograph that shows a scene of Boat Quay in Singapore, taken from across the Singapore River. In the photograph, the Singapore River is full of boats parked at both sides of the river. At the far bank of the river...
  • View of beach, Singapore, 1921

    Streets and Places · Economy · Nature and Environment
    This postcard from the “Lim Shao Bin Collection” features a collage of three pictures of Singapore. The picture on the left shows a worker extracting latex from a rubber tree. The picture in the middle shows a crocodile, partially submerged in water. The picture on the right shows a scene...