Book
Visualising Space: Maps of Singapore and the Region, Collections from the National Library and National Archives of Singapore
Topics
Collection Highlights
18 December 2015
This book features rare maps from the 15th to 19th centuries.
Singapore: National Library Board, 2015.
About the Book
This publication features research essays on the early commercial operations of the Eu Yan Sang enterprise, the business practices of the Chettiars and the role of remittance letters in maintain family ties for overseas Chinese. Using primary resources in the National Library, Singapore’s Koh Seow Chuan collection, writers Koh Keng We, Kannan Kesavan and Dong Huiying from Nanyang Technological University show us how seemingly insignificant materials can be used to examine aspects of early Singapore society from the view of the common person.