| VOP Code: | KSN495 |
| Category: | Photographs & Paintings |
| Scale/No.: | n/a |
| Title: | Shophouse Row |
| Keywords: | 14 Buckingham St, 16 Buckingham St, 18 Buckingham St, 20 Buckingham St, 22 Buckingham St, 24 Buckingham St, Community shophouses, Endowment properties under the Waqf of Kapitan Keling Mosque, Image taken before the 1997 beautification project designed in collaboration with Yokohama Japan municipal council, |
| Features: | image taken: 1991-1993, Context: 14 Buckingham St is at the back of the Kapitan Keling Mosque and was formerly used as a Madrasah, Details: 16 to 24 were designed and built together, with jack roofs. Although Waqf properties, before the Repeal of rent control 2000 many were let to Chinese businesses, Materials: 14 Buckingham St is unusual with its Chinese temple roof tile canopy, George Town, |
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Shophouse Row
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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.
