Changi library

Place Asia: Singapore, Changi
Accession Number ART26501
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 50 x 36.8 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description pen and blue ink and brown wash over pencil on paper
Maker Griffin, Murray
Place made Singapore: Changi
Date made 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Stocked with books brought into the prison camp by the men, mainly in the march from Tanglin Camp in 1942. Later the Japanese allowed prisoners-of-war to bring in more books from Raffles Library, Singapore. As may be seen from the drawing this well-patronised amenity.