Portrait photo of Chen Chong Swee
Collection Details
- Reference Code
- RC-SG04-CCS-0514
- Level of Description
- Item
- Title
- Portrait photo of Chen Chong Swee
- Dates
- 1928; 1927; 1931 (Date of Creation; Date of Creation)
- Scope and Content
- in alias: Chen Chong Swee was fond of using 磑 in alias which he used in late 1920s and 1930s, and which he romanised as Chen Khai. Unfornately, it is actually pronounced as “wei”, although 鎧,凱,愷 (all “kai”) and 磑 (wei) share the same right radical 豈. Top left two very faded photos, one with inscription: “阿磑在友中「友聯中學」” Translation: “Ah ‘Kai’ at Youlian High School (Swatow)” Lower left： dark jacketed, early 1930s Lower left : bespectacled, late 1920s Lower middle: inscription “一九二八年磑在 星洲時照“ Translation: “1928 ‘Kai’ photographed in Singapore” Lower right： Chen Chong Swee in 1960s or 1970s Middle right, Chen Chong Swee at his desk, 1931, Singapore. See same photo and its inscription of RC-SG04-CCS-0474. Top right portrait: inscription “将赴叻 时在汕 头照相 一九二八“ Translation: “About to leave for Singapore (Le), photographed in Swatow, 1928” Top right corner undecipherable photograph, inscription: “阿磑 在家園 时年十 有七” Translation: “Ah ‘Kai’ at home, aged 17”
- Transcriptions
- in alias: Chen Chong Swee was fond of using 磑 in alias which he used in late 1920s and 1930s, and which he romanised as Chen Khai. Unfornately, it is actually pronounced as “wei”, although 鎧,凱,愷 (all “kai”) and 磑 (wei) share the same right radical 豈. Top left two very faded photos, one with inscription: “阿磑在友中「友聯中學」” Translation: “Ah ‘Kai’ at Youlian High School (Swatow)” Lower left： dark jacketed, early 1930s Lower left : bespectacled, late 1920s Lower middle: inscription “一九二八年磑在 星洲時照“ Translation: “1928 ‘Kai’ photographed in Singapore” Lower right： Chen Chong Swee in 1960s or 1970s Middle right, Chen Chong Swee at his desk, 1931, Singapore. See same photo and its inscription of RC-SG04-CCS-0474. Top right portrait: inscription “将赴叻 时在汕 头照相 一九二八“ Translation: “About to leave for Singapore (Le), photographed in Swatow, 1928” Top right corner undecipherable photograph, inscription: “阿磑 在家園 时年十 有七” Translation: “Ah ‘Kai’ at home, aged 17”
- General Material Type
- photographs
- Extent
- 8 photographs : b&w
- Material Format
- RCA-D (Digital Archives only)
- People and organisations as subjects
- Source of Acquisition or Transfer
- The archive was loaned by Chen Chi Sing @ Tan Chay Lee to National Gallery Singapore Resource Centre for digitisation
- Conditions Governing Access
- Unrestricted
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