Ooh, a parade: Fascinated children watching soldiers march past during the Queen's Birthday Parade on Elgin Bridge. (June 5, 1952).

Rub-a-dub-dub, one man in a tub: It was a race to the finish as rowers paddled furiously in choppy waters. The New Year Sea Sports event, held near th...

Joy ride: A family enjoying a ride in their car on Pulau Tekong. The car – one of only two vehicles on the island, the other being a police truck – wa...

I do, I do, I do too: Double happiness shared is happiness indeed. A total of 13 couples tying the knot at the first mass wedding of the year at the H...

Big outbreak of smallpox: A little girl turning away as she receives her smallpox jab. She was among those who went to the Ministry of Health and City...

Ghost writers: Long before AI-assisted writing, scribes penned letters to distant relatives for a fee. These writers often knew several dialects and l...

All dressed up and somewhere to go: A family dressed in their Chinese New Year best travelling by trishaw to their next stop. (Feb 3, 1954)

Gifts for the new year: People aged 60 and above queuing at Great World City to receive presents from the Shaw family, whose business empire included ...

Starting young: Pupils of Telok Kurau English School queuing to open savings accounts with the then Post Office Savings Bank. (July 3, 1951)

We built this city: Samsui women in their distinctive headgear working at Capitol Theatre. Hailing from China, they were the backbone of manual labour...

Champion shuttler: Badminton player Wong Peng Soon was the first Asian to win the All-England Open Badminton Championships in 1950, 1951, 1952 and 195...

Rising from the ashes: Five blocks of flats, with 904 one-room units renting at $20 a month, were the first to open for victims of the Bukit Ho Swee f...

Fire!: People salvaging belongings after a huge fire broke out in Bukit Ho Swee. The blaze, one of the worst in Singapore, left four people dead, 85 i...

From village to wasteland: A huge fire at Kampong Tiong Bahru left 12,000 people homeless. The blaze, which spread quickly due to the flammable materi...

Ill-fated landing: Rescuers frantically dragging a flight attendant from a burning Qantas-BOAC Constellation that crashed at Kallang Airport. A total ...

Press photographers at the​ 1952 Thomas Cup badminton final at Happy World​ on June ​1, 1952.