Get free access to 1,500 pre-1900 maps of S'pore and S-E Asia on new Yale-NUS website

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In an 1892 map of Singapore showing principal residences and places of interest, more than 10 country bungalows line the road. Read more at straitstimes.com.

SINGAPORE - Balestier Road is today lined with colourful shophouses and apartment blocks, but a much different housing type dotted the road in the late 19th century.

Compiled by a research team from Yale-NUS College, the online platform has maps from three other libraries besides the Bodleian Libraries - Singapore's National Library Board, Leiden University Libraries and Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The research team has made the maps easier to access on its new platform by adding metadata to each map beyond what was provided by the source libraries.

 

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