Scope and Contents 265 x 208 mm (mounted on card). A group portrait showing Europeans, Chinese, Malays and Indians arranged (probably) in front of the Residency, Kuala Lumpur. Figures identified in Swettenham's hand beneath the print are: YAP AH SHAK (d 1889); Chinese businessman and trader; arrived in Kuala Lumpur 1870; Capitan China 1885-1889; Magistrate and High Court Assessor under British Administration; Dr Augustine W. SINCLAIR; formerly Medical Officer in Upper Sarawak, Borneo and Kinta, Perak;...

Scope and Contents 265 x 208 mm (mounted on card). Showing the Kuala Lumpur market buildings, an open sided building with a tiled roof supported by brick stanchions and situated near the east bank of the Klang River south of Market Street. The market and its site were originally under the control of the Capitan China Yap Ah Loy. Gullick (1955, p. 42) describes Swettenhams views on the market: On its reversion to the State, certain improvements were made to the building and shortly afterwards a more...

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108 x 150 mm. A photographic copy of a painting showing Yap Ah Loy seated beside a table. The photograph is reproduced from a painting in the Yap Kongsi, Kuala Lumpur. Yap Ah Loy (1887-1885), a Chinese businessman, entrepreneur and administrator in Selangor, was born in Kwantung and came to Malaya in 1854, and to Kuala Lumpur in 1862. He was Capitan China in Kuala Lumpur from 1869-1885.