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138 x 80 mm. Showing two Chinese fishermen and a boy aboard their vesel. This boat was stopped by Marks to check whether the sailors had valid fishing licences. Photograph possibly by Oliver Marks.

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138 x 79 mm. Showing boats moored beside waterside houses raised on stilts at Pasir Itam. Photograph possibly by Oliver Marks.

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138 x 79 mm. Showing the steamer Flying Dragon approaching a wharf at Port Weld. Marks (1926) provides the following description: 'Alongside the wharf lay the Flying Dragon, a small coasting vessel, which has run between Penang and Perak for the last forty years: carrying pigs, ducks, blachan, durians, dried fish and unwashed native passengers, and also perhaps more smells per ton than any vessel of her size.'

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138 x 80 mm. Showing Oliver Marks posed in the centre of a group of Banjarese and Javanesemen.

Scope and Contents 209 x 152 mm (mounted on card). A group portrait showing British officials and two women posed in a garden, probably at Seremban. The figures in the group include: Sir William Hood TREACHER (1849-1919); Resident General, Federated Malay States 1902-1904; Mrs WELD; wife of F.J. Weld; Sir John ANDERSON (1858-1915); Governor of Straits Settlements and High Commissioner, Federated Malay States 1904-1911; High Commissioner, Brunei, 1906-1911; Permanent Under Secretary of State for the Colonies...