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Biblioasia Oct-Dec 2018.Pdf Vol. 14 Issue biblioasia03 2018 OCT–DEC 10 / Singapore Spy Film 18 / Malay Healing Practices 24 / Kranji War Cemetery 38 / Ode to Two Women 40 / House by the River 46 / German Pharmacies FROM CARRIAGES TO CARS p. 2 BiblioAsia Director’s Note Editorial & CONTENTS Vol. 14 / Issue 03 OCT–DEC 2018 Production How quickly the last quarter of the year is upon us! Welcome to the final issue ofBiblioAsia Managing Editor for 2018. Francis Dorai The first automobiles were imported into Singapore in 1896, and shortly after, print FEATURE advertisements began appearing in newspapers and magazines, enticing consumers Editor with ever creative ways to part with their money for a new set of wheels. In the cover story, Veronica Chee Wheels of Change Mazelan Anuar tracks the rise of the automobile scene in Singapore, from carriages drawn 02 1896−1970 Editorial Support by horse, bullock and human to the advent of the first cars – advertised as “horseless Masamah Ahmad carriages” – from the late 19th century onwards. Jocelyn Lau Five Ashore in Singapore: Some of these early print ads on cars, along with those on food and drink to fashion and 10 A European Spy Film travel, and more, are on display at our latest exhibition – “Selling Dreams: Early Advertising Design and Print Oxygen Studio Designs in Singapore” – which takes place at the National Library Building until 24 February 2019. Pte Ltd Magic or Medicine? Besides selling a product or service, advertisements also reveal intriguing aspects 18 Malay Healing Practices 02 10 18 of life from a bygone era, as Sundari Balasubramaniam discovers in her examination of Contributors Tamil print ads published between the 1920s and 1960s. Athanasios Tsakonas Barbara Quek In Honour of War Heroes: We also turn our attention to a relatively unknown heritage building along Clarke Quay. Built in the southern Chinese style, this is the River House, which Martina Yeo and Yeo Martina Yeo 24 The Legacy of Colin St Mazelan Anuar Clair Oakes Kang Shua suggest might have served as the headquarters of a secret society in the 1880s. Nadirah Norruddin Another edifice of historical significance is the Kranji War Cemetery, the final resting Ong Eng Chuan place of servicemen who perished during World War II. Athanasios Tsakonas tells us how Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew Blazing a Trail: Raphaël Millet The Fight for Women’s and why the architect from the Imperial War Graves Commission, Colin St Clair Oakes, 32 chose Kranji as the eventual site for his war memorial. Robert Yeo Rights in Singapore Shereen Tay Interestingly, the first two Western-style pharmacies established in Singapore – the Sundari Balasubramaniam Medical Hall on Battery Road and the Medical Office on North Bridge Road – were started An Ode to Timothy Pwee by German émigrés in the late 19th century. Timothy Pwee traces the 120-year-history of Yeo Kang Shua 38 Two Women the Medical Office until its fairly recent closure in 2012. 24 32 Does traditional Malay medicine have more in common with science or magic and Please direct all correspondence to: The House folklore? Nadirah Norruddin goes further back into our history to demystify the myths of Ripples National Library Board 40 surrounding the age-old practice of Malay medicine and reports how it has evolved since 100 Victoria Street #14-01 colonial times when the British saw Malay village healers as little more than charlatans. National Library Building “The German Medicine With gender-related issues so much in the news today, Phyllis Chew takes a look Singapore 188064 Deity”: Singapore’s at the history of the Singapore Council of Women (SWC). Spearheaded in 1952 by activist Email: [email protected] 46 Website: www.nlb.gov.sg Early Pharmacies Shirin Fodzar to break down barriers in society, the SWC was an instrumental force in the enactment of the Women’s Charter in 1961. On the cover: சிங்ைகப் பத்திரிைக In another, and mellower, look at women, Robert Yeo pays tribute to his daughter Sha The evolution of automobiles Min and the acclaimed writer Catherine Lim, in an extract from a forthcoming sequel to from the noisy and clunky 50 விளம்பரங்கள் “horseless carriage” of the 1920−1960 வைர his memoir Routes: A Singaporean Memoir 1940–1975. ஒ쏁 பா쏍ைவ 1890s to the modern petrol- Finally, we showcase two collections from the National Library: Ong Eng Chuan pre- driven motorcar of the 1960s. 38 40 46 views significant items from the Lee Kip Lee and Lee Kip Lin Family Archives of personal Cover design by Oxygen and business papers belonging to a prominent Peranakan family in British Malaya; while Studio Designs Pte Ltd. Barbara Quek highlights publications featuring some of Singapore’s best hawker stalls from our Legal Deposit Collection. On the subject of Legal Deposit, I should take this opportunity to highlight the recent amendment to the National Library Board Act which now allows us to archive Singapore websites without having to seek the express permission of website owners. Shereen Tay stresses the importance of systematically archiving the often ephemeral nature of web content for our future generations. We hope you enjoy reading this edition of BiblioAsia. 50 56 Mrs Wai Yin Pryke Director National Library All rights reserved. NL NOTES National Library Board, Singapore, 2018. Papers from the Past: ISSN 0219-8126 (print) 56 The Lee Family Archives ISSN 1793-9968 (online) The views of writers and contribu- tors do not reflect the views of the Makan Places and BiblioAsia is a free quarterly publication produced by the National Library Board. Publisher. No part of this publica- It features articles on the history, culture and heritage of Singapore within the larger tion may be reproduced in any form 62 Coffee Socks or by any means without prior writ- ten permission from the Publisher Asian context, and has a strong focus on the collections and services of the National and copyright owner(s). Archiving the Library. BiblioAsia is distributed to local and international libraries, academic institutions, Whilst reasonable care has been 62 66 66 Singapore-Wide Web government ministries and agencies, as well as members of the public. The online taken to ensure the accuracy of the information in this publica- edition of BiblioAsia is available at www.nlb.gov.sg/biblioasia/ tion, the Publisher accepts no legal liabilities whatsoever for the contents of this magazine. BIBLIOASIA OCT – DEC 2018 Vol. 14 / Issue 03 / Feature Mazelan Anuar is a Senior Librarian with the National Library, Singapore. His research interests are in early Singapore Malay publications and digital librarianship. He manages the National Library’s Malay language collection as well as the NewspaperSG portal. (He is a safe driver, and owns the reliable and down-to-earth Toyota Wish.) The word “automobilism”, meaning the they imported the first automobiles in Automobile ads continued to make use of automobiles,1 entered the English August 1896. Before this, the horse- reference to “horseless carriages” for lexicon in the late 19th century when motor drawn carriage, shipped in from Britain decades afterwards, and well into the tvehicles emerged as a new mode of pri- since the 1820s, was a popular means of mid 1950s. This was usually to draw vate transportation. Karl Benz’s “Patent- passenger transport. Another common attention to the fact that the product Motorwagen”, first built in 1885, sparked mode of transportation in the late 19th or company had existed since the dawn a vehicular revolution that saw animal century was the jinrickshaw (literally of the automobile industry and had power replaced by the internal combustion “man-drawn carriage” in Japanese), grown in tandem with it. Examples of engine. Thus was born the automobile, originally from Japan and introduced such advertisements included those for which literally means “self-moving” car. in Singapore in 1880 from Shanghai.2 Dunlop Tyres, Shell (formerly the Asiatic Although the term “automobilism” has The Katz Brothers were the sole Petroleum Company) and Chloride Bat- fallen into disuse, the world’s love affair agents for Benz and Co.’s “Motor- teries Limited. with automobiles has never waned, with Velociped”, which was advertised as The introduction of automobiles succeeding generations embracing it with a “horseless carriage”. A favourable was enthusiastically embraced by the as much enthusiasm as the early adopters. review in The Singapore Free Press and who’s who of Singapore and Malaya. A Mercantile Advertiser described it as a certain B. Frost of the Eastern Exten- THE HORSELESS CARRIAGE “neat-looking four-wheeled carriage” sion Telegraph Company and subse- that did not require an “expert driver”, quently Charles B. Buckley, publisher The Katz Brothers ushered in the age but commented that its $1,600 price and famed author of An Anecdotal of automobilism in Singapore when tag was “somewhat high”.3 History of Singapore, were the first to own and drive the Benz in Singapore.4 Soon, more automobiles were brought (Facing page) Ford’s Consul Cortina was marketed as a woman’s “dream car”. The target customer as depicted in the advertisement here is a young, modern woman, suggesting the rising status of into Singapore. The Benz was followed by 5 Singapore women in the 1960s. Image reproduced from The Straits Times Annual, 1964, p. xxvii. the De Dion Bouton and then the Albion. (Below) A jinrickshaw puller at the corner of North Bridge and Rochor roads, 1930s. A common mode of transportation in late-19th century Singapore was the jinrickshaw (literally “man-drawn carriage” in Japanese), originally from Japan and introduced to the island in 1880. Allen Goh Collection, courtesy of National Archives of Singapore. (Right) The first automobile in Singapore was advertised as a horseless carriage.
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