Exhibition of Singapore maps
Posted by otterman on 15 May 2008
Last week I blogged at Yesterday.sg about the National Archives exhibition, “From Emporium to Singapore City: Mapping the Journey.” By posting that notice, I had finally attended to Mok Ly Yng’s many updates. heeding the alert, I went down yesterday morning and spent a couple of hours at Jurong Regional Library examining the reproductions.
Having checked with Archives and securing special permission from the library, I spent my time mostly taking photos with Ruo Yu’s assistance. We found the stiff and very light tripod quite unsuitable for this work and the low light didn’t help. Still, adequate material was obtained for use in lectures and heritage blog posts in future.
Although I have not had time to post up the images, I will at least be putting the Congalton Thomson (1846) map to immediate use. I’m giving a seminar in the morning at a freshwater crab workshop, and a larger version of this map will be used to highlight a point about hills streams in Singapore.
