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Photographs of Tuanku Abdul Halim, Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia
Photographs: the Siege in Peking [i.e. Beijing] 1900
Plumbago in Ceylon [i.e. Sri Lanka], c.1886
Portrait of Sir Frederick Lugard as Governor of Hong Kong
105 x 195 cms on mount in frame 215 x 310 cms. Frederick John Dealtry Lugard (1858-1945), created Baron Lugard of Abinger in 1928, is associated chiefly with Africa, but was Governor of Hong Kong from 1907 to 1912. He was chiefly responsible for the creation of the University of Hong Kong in 1911. This full-length portrait of him in Governor's full-dress uniform is signed at the bottom.
Portraits of the Cabul prisoners
Coloured drawings and portraits illustrating the Cabul prisoners of 1842.
Postcard Collection
Progress in the Colonies, 1940s-1950s
Pudu English School
Collection of photographs mounted on a sheet of paper with handwritten captions.
Josephine Foss, M.B.E., arrived in Malaya in 1923 and was sent to take charge of Pudu School. Conditions were poor, but new buildings were obtained and the school was greatly developed.
Queen Mary Indian collection
R. Elsy Collection on India and Ceylon [i.e. Sri Lanka]
An album of albumen prints by John Edward Sache, Thomas A. Rust, Nicholas and Co., and W.L.H. Skeen and Co. It was compiled by R. Elsy apparently during a tour in the 1880s through India and Ceylon. It includes pictures of Bombay, Delhi, Agra, Cawnpore, Lucknow, Allahabad, Benares, Calcutta, Madras, Bangalore and Ceylon. The prints' pencil captions have been used as titles; titles composed by the cataloguer have been enclosed in square brackets.
RASC Personnel, Buller Barracks, Singapore, November 1926
235 x 170 mm. Photograph showing the personnel with identifications of most of those present on a separate sheet. It accompanies the reminiscences 'Singapore 1926-29' of Major Leonard Ridgway, M.B.E., who was an RASC Staff Clerk at Fort Canning from 1926 to 1929. In addition to the identifications his typescript reminiscences include two pages (a & b) of biographical notes on the individuals.
Reception for Queen's Day, 1952, Djakarta [i.e. Jakarta]
175 x 120 mm. Photograph of the Indonesian Premier, Dr. Wilope, proposing the toast of H.M. Queen Elizabeth II at a reception given by H.E. Sir Derwent William Kermode (1898-1960) British Ambassador in Djakarta on 5 June 1952. Photograph by Ipphas, Indonesia. With accompanying correspondence.
Reminiscences
Report on a Mission to Sikkim and the Tibetan Frontier, with a Memorandum on our relations with Tibet
Report with photographs of the repairs executed to some of the principal temples at Bhubanasvar and caves in the Khandagiri and Udaigiri Hills, Orissa, India, between 1898 and 1903 by M.H. Arnott, M. Inst. C.E., Executive Engineer, Bengal Public Works
Reports on Aden routes
Manuscript and typescript reports by Wheeler and others on Aden routes, with a sketch map of the area. The papers include Wheeler's report on the best road from Aden to Dthala for a force accompanied by artillery on wheels, with a covering letter to D.A.A.G., Aden, 13 November 1902, 22 pages. The other items include a diary and itinerary of Route Sanah to Dthala by the Wadi Tiban, Wadi Tabaghain and Sueda, 1-10 May 1905, 14 pages, and similar reports.
Representative men of Central India 1889, London : Vincent Brooks, Day and Son, 1889
A printed book containing woodburytypes, each 195 x 240 mm, by various photographers. The volume is part of a projected series of portraits with biographical articles.
Richard Frederick Rainsford collection
Roads in Bombay
Collection of photographs, including three duplicates, commissioned by McKenzies Limited to illustrate their highway construction work in Bombay, other regions of India and Ceylon.
Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith, Singapore
Photographs show a Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith (now in the custody of Mr Pastouna in Germany) that was delivered to the Governor of Singapore and used for various formal occasions. Details are provided in correspondence filed with the photographs. The subjects covered are a visit to Singapore by H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh and to Germany by H.R.H. Princess Alexandra of Kent.
Royal Colonial Institute Competition Album of Indian views
Royal Commonwealth Society Artefacts Collection
Soon after its foundation in 1868, the Royal Colonial Institute had envisaged the establishment of a museum, but following the 1886 Colonial and Indian Exhibition in South Kensington, and the creation of the Imperial Institute, the plan was abandoned. Over the years, however, the society built up a small, eclectic collection of objects as members donated items they had received as gifts or purchased during work or travel overseas.
Royal Tour of Commonwealth 1953-54
Royal visits to Nepal 1911 and 1921
A Christmas card, dated December 1922, containing two photographs, 135 x 80 mm.
The card has a printed greeting, with 'December 1922. Kathmandu' and is signed Kaiser Shamsher (i.e. Kaiser Shamser Jana Bahadur Rana, 3rd son of the Maharaja (1892-1964)). The card came from the effects of Miss Elizabeth Vann but the original recipient of the card is unknown.
Sakai people of Malaya [i.e. Malay Peninsula]
Collection of fifty loose photographs (some duplicates) measuring approximately 125 x 170 mm of Indigenous people, all with typed captions.
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