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Sarvajnagunalankaraya
A palm-leaf manuscript from Sri Lanka containing a description of the virtues of the Omniscient One (Buddha). It is comprised of a collection of writings on various topics that were of interest to the devotee. This is a nineteenth-century copy of the original work.
Scenes in Pakistan 1960s
Collection of loose prints, chiefly of projects financed by the World Bank or the International Finance Corporation, Washington D.C.
School Empire Tours Record 1927-1939
School groups in Calcutta, ?1920s-30s
Collection consisting of loose prints of school groups in Calcutta. The schools have not been identified. Photographs by Edna Lorenz and H. Paul.
Shanghai Racecourse, circa 1870
Albumen prints mounted on card and measuring approximately 275 x 200 mm. Photographer unknown.
Singapore
Collection of photographs most of which are by G.R. Lambert and Co. Unless otherwise stated they are 270 x 210 mm. The captions are those on the prints; where there is no caption, one is given in brackets.
Singapore 1982
A collection of loose colour prints each 360 x 240 mm. Some descriptive captions have been added, but most of the information was supplied with the photographs, and has not been updated.
Sir Harold Smedley Collection
Diaries, official papers, correspondence and photographs
Sir Harry Brittain Collection
Sir Henry Norman Far East collection, circa 1890
Original glass negatives measuring 164 x 122 mm by Sir Henry Norman. Some of the negatives are accompanied by handwritten captions. Views shown are of French Indo-China, China, Malaya, Siam, Korea and Japan.
Sir John Bagnall Collection
The collection includes Bagnall's account of his evacuation from Singapore during the Second World War immediately before its fall to the Japanese in Feb. 1942. It is accompanied by photographs of the home he occupied at the time.
Sir Ralph Hone collection : South Arabia
Sir Raynor Arthur Collection
Sketch of the constitution of the Kandyan kingdom
'A sketch of the constitution of the Kandyan kingdom', the last independent state in Sri Lanka, which had its capital at Kandy, c. 1835, 186 pages; a memorandum on the law of inheritance, 30 pages; rules for administering justice, 25 pages; Sir John Doyley's notes on the Kandyan law of inheritance, 8 pages; Singhalese law of inheritance, etc., 47 pages; and notes on the law of marriage, etc., 30 pages.
Sketches in India : taken at Hyderabad and Secunderabad, in the Madras Presidency, London : Lovell Reeve, 1862
Souvenir of India
An accordion fold album containing 12 albumen prints showing domestic scenes, 143 x 100 mm in size, with pencil captions beneath each image (written over fainter pencil captions). The photographer is unknown, but a similarly titled album of the same size has been credited to the French photographer Jean Baptiste Oscar Mallitte (1829-1905).
Sukkur Bridge
Taj Mahal
145 x 195 mm, on card mount. A montage showing the Taj as seen across the Jumna River, framed in an arch which is actually situated on land. The photograph was presented to Miss Diana Hartley on 16 December 1935 by staff and students of the Thomason Hospital, Agra, to commemorate her visit, as Secretary of the Trained Nurses Association of India, in November 1935. The photograph is stored at RCMS 77.
'Tales of India written for my grandchildren'
Tennant family papers
Papers relating to Brigadier-General Sir James Tennnat and his son Lieutenant-General James Francis Tennant
The Ceylon War Council, 1942
216 x 144 mm. The photograph is a group portrait of the members of the Ceylon War Council. The only figures identified are the Governor of Ceylon, Sir Andrew Caldecott (fourth from the left in the front row) and Brigadier Sir Patrick Alexander Bruce McKerron of the Malayan Civil Service. McKerron was seconded as Political Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief, Ceylon during the Second World War.
The de Lucy family and Malaya
'The face in the mirror': autobiography of John Morley
The autobiography of John Morley, written during the 1970s, 122 pages.
The Himalayas 1932
Framed panoramic photograph made up of two prints joined, 380 x 105 mm. The photograph shows a view of the Himalayas taken at sunrise on a trek from Darjeeling to Kanchenjunga in 1932 by J.P.Perry. The frame measures 453 x 188 mm.
The History of the Imperial Assemblage at Delhi, held on the 1st January, 1877
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