2015

A description of Samsui women, who worked in many construction sites in Singapore during the 1930s
A description of the coolies living area in Chinatown.
A Japanese kwai-po's* conversation with a group of young girls about her life in Singapore
A photograph of a Chinese rickshaw coolie with his customers in the 1900s.
A photograph of men from the Detective Branch in civilian clothes in Singapore, 1906.
A report written by William Pickering, a British appointed as the Protector of Chinese, presented before the British Government in February 1877.
A Samsui woman's account of her life in colonial Singapore
A statement from Liew Ship Yit, a new Chinese immigrant saved from being smuggled overseas by the British Police
Adapted from a historian’s account on Chinese secret societies in colonial Singapore.
An account by a Eurasian man, describing Europeans living in Singapore before World War Two.
An ex-Indian convict's experience as a labourer in colonial Singapore in the late 19th century.