| VOP Code: | KSN575 |
| Category: | Photographs & Paintings |
| Scale/No.: | n/a |
| Title: | Kongsoon House |
| Keywords: | 24 Beach St / Lebuh Pantai, Commercial building, retail and offices, Triple storey, |
| Features: | image taken: 1991-1993, Context: corner site, Church St. Beach St facade typically did not have a five-foot-way, but Church St façade incorporated one, Details: formerly the premises of Goh Teik Chee & Co, wholesale stores and ships chandlers, Materials: masonry with possibly reinforced columns, lime mortar and plaster, and large plate glass windows to the five-foot-way shop fronts, Personalities: Goh Teik Chee OBE, led the anti-opium movement and helped relieve the food shortage in WWI, George Town, |
| Year: | 1914 |
| Source: |
Kongsoon House
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Acknowledgement:
We would like to thank the Archives and Special Collections, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Library, University of London, for providing access to the Light Letters Collection. We are particularly indebted to Susannah Rayner, who was head of Archives and Special Collections at SOAS Library and Erich Kesse, the Digital Library Project Officer at SOAS Library. Our gratitude goes to Dr. Mulaika Hijjas, Professor Ernst Ulrich Kratz and Dato’ Dr. Annabel Teh Gallop. Our appreciation is also extended to Zulqarnain Abu Bakar, Muhaimin Sulam, M Pisol Mat Isa, M Nuri al-Amin and Raja Ahmad Iskandar Raja Yaacob of the Department of Management and Humanities, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS.
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For Further Information, Please Contact
Professor Dato’ Dr. Ahmad Murad Merican (muradmerican@gmail.com), Universiti Sains Malaysia.
Mr. Abdur-Rahman Mohamed Amin (urrahman_amin@petronas.com.my), Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS.
