Asia (continent)
Found in 16213 Collections and/or Records:
A Sekapan grave, 1900
104 x 145 mm. Showing the tomb in a jungle clearing. The construction is in the form of a miniature house raised on piles above the ground and built from ornately carved and painted wood.
A Selangor volunteer's escape, 1960 - 1969
A copy of Nias's account of his wartime service in Malaya. He was involved in demolition work during the retreat to Singapore. After its fall he and a number of comrades escaped in a dinghy and an old yacht, reaching Sumatra, from whence he was evacuated to Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom (6 sheets). Nias’s diary was published in ‘British Malaya’, June 1942, 16-17. The collection is accompanied by a letter from Professor A. L. McLeod to Hugh Bryson.
A series of domed pavilions, steps leading down to the Lake, with elephant statues by the waterside, 1910
A seven-headed palm, 1905 - 1906
[Exact location untraced]
A Shan village, 1889 - 1891
154 x 109 mm. General view of a settlement of thatched houses in a clearing in dense jungle.
A Shentzu, of Government mule litter, 1908-11
Landscape format. At the village of Nan-chu-tao, Weihaiwei.
A shooting party in camp, Srinuggur, 1864
296 x 238 mm. Showing a group of Europeans posed beside their tents in their camp at Srinagar, with Indian servants and bearers arranged around the trophies laid out on the ground. With the poplar avenue in the background. Bourne no. 816
'A short history of Paterson, Simons & Company'
A Sibop village, Tinjar River, 1900
144 x 103 mm. View from across the river looking towards the longhouses of the village, set on a rise above the river bank.
A sick convoy, 1908 - 1909
A similar scene, from the rear, 1959
175 x 125 mm.
'A Singapore poltergeist', 1962
Three annotated drafts of an account of how Smith investigated the case of a clerk in the Federated Malay States Railway during the early 1930s, who claimed to be the victim of black magic (8 sheets). The file includes a letter relating to its publication.
A sketch of the constitution of the Kandyan kingdom
A work on the constitution of the Kandyan Kingdom, the last independent state in Sri Lanka, which had its capital at Kandy, 414 pages. The manuscript is endorsed at the end 'Copied by J.H. Direckize Translator of the Ratnapura Kachcheri (?) 28th Octr. 1892'.
A smithy in Mandalay, 1907-12
Quarter-plate.
A stall in old Benares [Varanasi], 1966
83 x 57 mm. glossy print with 35 mm. negative and 246 x 157 mm. enlargement.
A State elephant, 1905-12-05 - 1905-12-08
190 x 140 mm.
‘A storm’, 1961
Coe's account of being caught in a violent rainstorm while punting in the lower reaches of the Kelantan River near Kota Bharu in 1931.
A street group, Chanderiang, 1904 - 1910
Showing a group of Malays in the street at Chanderiang, with thatched wooden buildings opening onto the street as shops.
A street in Brunei, 1908-12
Half-plate. [Children standing about on the roads - logs on stilts linking the houses].
A street in Henzada, 1903 - 1921
A street in Henzada, 1903 - 1921
A street in Larnaca [i.e. Lárnax], 1878
A street in Soerakarta - 'Solo' - Java, 1870 - 1900
242 x 193 mm. View looking along a tree shaded street lined with thatched huts at Surakarta or Solo, situated on the Solo River 120 miles WSW of Surabaya. The town contains the vast walled palace of the Sultan of Surakarta and Fort Vastenburg (built in 1779).
A street in Srinagar, 1899 - 1901
78 x108 mm.
A street in Srinagar, a branch of the Dhal canal, merchants houses, 1899 - 1901
210 x 150 mm.