I can not tell you much about the beginning of Singapore. I will have to leave that to the older people. But I can tell you all about the finish of it. I was there and saw it.
Singapore was a city on the shore of Lake Michigan, which was buried by sand dunes in the late 19th century. These images are part of a book project in which the story of Singapore is framed by a travelogue at a so-called “vanishing” tea party in the 1930s, and told through a combination of new photographs paired with period texts, describing the initially optimistic founding of a port city built to rival Chicago, and its eventual total destruction and abandonment just 50 years later.
