SINGAPORE ANTIQUE PICTURE POSTCARDS : REFLECTIONS OF A BYGONE ERA: SINGAPORE POSTCARDS 1890/1900s

SINGAPORE ANTIQUE PICTURE POSTCARDS : REFLECTIONS OF A BYGONE ERA: SINGAPORE POSTCARDS 1890/1900s: "EARLY LITHO POSTCARD DEPICTING ADELPHI HOTEL, COLLYER QUAY, & CHINESE RICKSHAW MAN BY KUNZLI FRERES (OF ZURICH SWITZERLAND ) IN 1890s EAR..."

SINGAPORE POSTCARDS 1890/1900s

EARLY LITHO POSTCARD DEPICTING ADELPHI  HOTEL, COLLYER QUAY, & CHINESE RICKSHAW MAN BY KUNZLI FRERES (OF ZURICH SWITZERLAND ) IN 1890s

EARLY 1890s LITHO POSTCARDS PROBABLY PUBLISHED ALSO BY KUNZLI FRERES

EARLY 1980s POSTCARD DEPICTING HOTEL DE LA PAIX, JOHNSTON'S PIER, ESPLANADE PANORAMA CATHEDRAL BACKGROUND BY J KROYER'S BUCHDRUCKEREI HAMBURG GERMANY

RAFFLES LIGHTHOUSE

CHINESE IMMIGRANT WITH LONG "PIG-TAIL" HAIR AT RAFFLES SQUARE. PICTURE DEPICTS METHODIST PUBLISHING HOUSE SIGNBOARD & ROBINSON CO BUILDING.

RAFFLES PLACE JAPAN NIPPON YUSE KAISHA N.Y.K SHIPPING BUILDING & KELLY & WALSH CO, POSTCARD PUBLSHER

AROUND THE WORLD TRAVELLERS AT RAFFLES HOTEL

RAFFLES MUSEUM WITH SKELETONS OF MAMMALS ELEPHANTS ON DISPLAY

MULTI-RACIAL SINGAPORE

SINGAPORE PANORAMA WATERFRONT VIEW, CITY VIEW, BORNEO WHARF, BARRACKS OF ROYAL ARTILLERY AND ROYAL ENGINEERS, SMELTING WORKS OF STRAITS TRADING CO,BLAKAN MATI ISLAND WITH SEA-FISHING MALAY VILLAGE ON STILTS

SINGAPORE ----- THE LION CITY ---ISLAND REPUBLIC --LITTLE RED DOT ON MAP

SINGAPORE took its name from "Singa Pura" or Lion City. Located at the southern-most tip of the Malayan Mainland, the diamond-shaped island has a land area of about 710.3 sq.km and now supports a population exceeding 5 million people including new immigrants and foreign workers. The independent Island Republic has no hinterland nor any natural resources. What it has are its people of diverse races and ethnic groups with differing cultures and backrounds with their brawns and brain power, and their early realisation that the World does not owe them a living.

Singapore is not visible on any map of the World. It is just a speck or dot or nothing at all on world maps or atlases. The above Map postcards depicting only Asia, Oceania clearly illustrate this point. Someone once remarked that the Island Republic can easily fit into Lake Taupo in the North Island of New Zealand with room to spare!

TRIBUTE TO RAFFLES

Indian Sepoy Troop Parading Before Raffles Statue At the Padang (Circa 1909)

Singapore was literally born a British Settlement on 6 February 1819. Stamford Raffles acting for the East India Company had concluded a treaty with Tengku Long (Sultan Husain Muhammad Shah), and the Temenggong of Johore, for the establishment of a trading post on the island of Singapore. For his vision in planting the seed of growth, Raffles is well remembered today in modern Singapore through the commemorative Raffles Statue sited alongside the Singapore River to mark his landing place, the commercial financial centre Raffles Place, the landmark Raffles Hotel, the premier school Raffles Institution, and many other buildings/places named after him.

Raffles foresaw the need to sow the seed of "education (which according to him ) must keep pace with commerce in order that its benefits may be ensured and its evils avoided". The Foundation Stone to the original Raffles College, now Raffles Instituition, was laid by Raffles himself on 5 June 1823.