Saturday, 1 August 2015

Where Olivia Mariamne Raffles and John Caspar Leyden rest...

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About 10 minutes walk from the National Museum of Indonesia in Jakarta, by Jalan Tanah Abang, is a small cemetery, or what is left of a b...
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Sunday, 24 May 2015

Tree Island: The entrance to the Singapore Strait, and a boundary marker

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On display at the Land of Gold and Spice (LoGaS) exhibition at the National Library are several Dutch and British navigational charts fro...
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Sunday, 3 May 2015

Map of Singapore Town, 1881. Sold for $95,000.

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Name: Map of Singapore Town shewing building allotments & registered numbers of crown leases Year: 1881 Map maker: Thambo Peter ...
Sunday, 19 April 2015

Sketch of the Land round Singapore Harbor, Feb 7 1819

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One of the main exhibits in the ' Land of Gold and Spice ' map exhibition at the National Library (on till 19th July) is undoubtedl...
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Saturday, 21 March 2015

Another Early Close-up Map of Singapore: Manuel Godinho de Erédia, 1615

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Name: Folio 26,  Historia de Servicos com Martiro de Luis Monteiro Coutinho   Year: 1615 Map maker: Manuel Godinho de Erédia Manuscript ...
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Sunday, 8 March 2015

The Earliest Close-up Map of Singapore: de Bry, 1606

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Name: Contrafactur des Scharmutz els der Holander... (from Achter Theil der Orientalischen Indien , Frankfurt am Main)  Year: 1606 Pub...
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Sunday, 15 February 2015

The Oldest Map in the National Library Collection

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Name: Undecima Asiae Tabula (from Geographia ) Year: 1478 Map maker: Arnold Buckinck Type: Copper Engraving Picture Source: National...
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