Title
An itinerant pushcart hawker
Year/Period
1920s
Region
Singapore
Object Type
postcards
Material
cardboard
Technique
printing (process), black-and-white photography
Dimension
Image size: 8.8 x 13.5 cm
Accession No.
XXXX-00433
Collection of
NLB Type
Postcard
Singapore’s exotic street life and architecture were commonly depicted in picture postcards. Its street hawkers, shophouses, temples and rickshaw-pullers were especially popular. The rickshaw-puller in particular was a popular subject of photography and constituted one of the objects of curiosity for Western tourists unaccustomed to this manual mode of transport.
