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269 x 209 mm. A view looking along Telok Ayer Street, with the Islamic Nagore Durgha mosque at the right and Chinese temple, the Thian Hock Keng in the centre of the print. The Nagore Durgha (originally known as Shahul Hamid Durgha) was built by South Indian Muslims in 1828-1830. Another, unidentified Islamic mosque can be partially seen at the left of the print.

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266 x 210 mm. A view from the sea looking towards jetties and warehouses at Pulo Brani near Keppel or New Harbour.

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266 x 210 mm.

Scope and Contents 273 x 214 mm. A view looking along one side of Raffles Square showing the premises of John Little and Co., with rickshaws and hack gharries in the roadway in front of the store. Francis Martin established a business in Singapore in 1842 which became Little, Cursetjee and Co., in 1845. Cursetjee left the partnership in 1853 and it was continued thereafter by J.M. and Matthew Little. From that date the company occupied the same site in the square, from the original modest building (for an...

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274 x 214 mm. A view looking across a stretch of water towards an island, with a small fishing boat in the foreground. Exact location unidentified.

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274 x 209 mm. (mounted on card). A view on the Rochore River north of the town, with boats in the foreground and a settlement of houses raised on stilts above the water on the farther bank. Photograph probably by G.R. Lambert and Co.

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274 x 208 mm. View from seaward looking towards wharves and jetties, with scrub-covered hillside beyond. This print is a duplicate of others in the collection which are captioned 'Pulo Brani'. A number of misidentifications in this collection would cause one to favour the latter location. Pulo Brani is situated near Keppel or New Harbour, Singapore. Photograph by G.R. Lambert and Co.

Scope and Contents 264 x 209 mm (mounted on card). A view looking N.W. [i.e. north-west] across the Padang towards St Andrew's Cathedral. St Andrew's replaced Singapore's first church (built 1834-1838) and was designed by Colonel Macpherson, the Executive Engineer. The foundation stone was laid in March 1856 and the church, built by convicts under the supervision of J.F.A. McNair, was completed by the end of 1860. It was opened for use in October 1861 and consecrated in January 1962 [sic]. A tower had...

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281 x 225 mm. A view looking east along the river towards the harbour, with boats moored in the foreground and the Cavenagh Bridge beyond. A photograph taken before the construction of the Anderson Bridge in 1910.

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272 x 214 mm. A studio photograph showing specimens of Singapore produce. These include custard apple, pineapple, jackfruit, coconut, banana, popia, durian, etc.

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273 x 215 mm. Showing sailing boats lined up for the start of a race, with a paddle steamer in the background. The race is starting just off Johnston's Pier, where crowds of spectators can be seen, with the premises of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in the background. At the right is the Post Office.

Scope and Contents 271 x 207 mm. A view looking across the Padang with Raffles Monument in the left foreground and the Cathedral beyond. The Raffles Monument, an eight foot high bronze statue of the founder of Singapore sculpted by Thomas Woolner at a cost £2,000, was unveiled by the Governor of the Straits Settlements, Sir Frederick Weld on June 27 1887, Queen Victoria's Golden jubilee. It was moved to a site in front of the Victoria Memorial Hall in celebration of Singapores centenary in 1919 (see BAM...

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273 x 213 mm. Showing Chinese and Malayan street hawkers gathered round a meat stall outside the tailoring establishment of Tong Cheong at the junction of Cross Street and South Bridge Road. Cross Street was also known as King Street by the Chinese and as Kampong Susu by the Malays.

Scope and Contents 274 x 211 mm. A view looking down onto the Victoria Dock which contains an American-built barque and a steamer, with a large group of the workforce watching the photographer from the dockside. Established in 1863 to cope with increasing congestion in the New Harbour, by 1866 a 750 ft wharf had been built and two years later the graving dock, named after Queen Victoria, was opened. A second graving dock, the Albert Dock, followed in 1879. A period of recession was ended by the opening...

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267 x 209 mm. A similar view to BAM 1/2, but taken at a later date.

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268 x 208 mm. A studio photograph showing two Indian men and a boy seated on the ground with the equipment for the mango trick laid out before them; these consist of woven baskets and the cloth beneath which the mango tree appears to grow in the space of a few minutes.

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267 x 206 mm. A view looking out towards the harbour from the Cavenagh Bridge with sampans loaded with goods entering the river from the port. A photograph taken before the construction of the Anderson Bridge in 1910.

Scope and Contents 270 x 205 mm. Showing a posed group of a European holding a rifle by a dead tiger, with malays standing around.In Falconer (1987), he writes of a copy of this photograph: 'This photograph must show one of the last tigers killed on the island and represents a reminder of the scourge which plagued Singapore for many years. In the earliest days of the settlement tigers, preferring the dense jungle, posed little threat to the inhabitants. The first recorded account of a tiger attack...

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273 x 211 mm. A view from the harbour looking towards the Collyer Quay waterfront, with a sampan loaded with sacks in the foreground and boats and lighters moored near the shore. Johnston's Pier is at the extreme right of the print.

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269 x 209 mm. A view from Mount Faber looking across St James and New Harbour towards Pulau Brani, with a Malay village in the foreground and the chimneys of the tin smelting works (opened in 1890) rising from behind the trees in the distance. Better known as New Harbour, it is located south- west of the town and was surveyed by Henry Keppel who in 1848 made repairs there to his ship the Meander. Its importance was largely eclipsed by the growth of the Tanjong Pagar Docks.

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273 x 214 mm. A view looking along one of the wharves in the Tanjong Pagar Docks, with disembarking passengers, porters and labourers on the quayside and a large steamer moored at the left.

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215 x 272 mm. Showing a wine palm growing beside an ornamental lake in the Singapore Botanic Gardens. The idea of a Botanic Gardens had been formulated as early as 1822 and land was set aside on the slopes of Fort Canning for the purpose. The present gardens were established in 1859 when the government gave a grant of 50 acres of land to the Singapore Agri-Horticultural Society for the purpose. These were opened to the public in 1874.