Asia (continent)
Found in 15935 Collections and/or Records:
A facemask craftsman at work at the Singapore Handicraft Centre which features the works of outstanding master craftsmen, 1982
The caption continues 'Dying arts like these are being revived'.
A family group, China, 1880 - 1889
208 x 157 mm. Showing a man, woman and three children seated on the stone steps in front of a house.
A famous gun at Flagstaff Point, Nicosia, 1908
Half-plate. [No print]. Missing. Gun found 1 Nov. 1907 by a sponge fisher in Famagusta Bay. It is a bronze cannon 9 feet long, presented by King Henry VIII to Villiers de l Isle Adam in 1527 towards the recovery of Rhodes. One of a park of guns.
A female student learning the finer points of surface grinding, 1982
'A few memories of two and a half years as district officer', 1965
A description of the duties and responsibilities of a district officer, much of it relating to the Malayan Emergency (35 sheets).
'A flood’, 1961
A description of the damage and foot shortages caused by major foods in Kelantan during 1928 and 1931 (4 sheets).
‘A flying boat’, 1961
An account of how Coe confused the landing of a kite with the landing of a seaplane in the Kelantan River in 1929 (3 sheets).
'A football pawang', 1963
An account of how a football match in the Coleman Shield competition around 1910 was cancelled, because neither team would venture onto the field before the other, having been warned that it would bring bad luck.
A forest glade, 1903 - 1921
A forest scene, 1924
The caption printed on the reverse reads: 'Wild deer and wild boar in Ceylon jungle'.
A gallery, Old Palace, 1905
A garden in Klang [i.e. Kelang], Selangor, 1904 - 1910
View looking across the garden towards a European house (largely obscured by vegetation). A note on the reverse suggests that this might be the house of John Kennaway.
A garden in Klang [i.e. Kelang], Selangor, 1904 - 1910
General view.
A garden in Kuching : Moirs garden, 1904 - 1910
View looking along a tree-shaded path in a Kuching garden.
A gate, Peking, 1880 - 1889
205 x 157 mm. View from the top of the wall looking down onto one of the city gates, with piles of stone slabs and bricks piled in a yard in the foreground.
A general view of Kandy, 1901-04-12 - 1901-04-15
A good load, 1905 - 1906
Elephant. [Location unknown].
A granite quarry at Kowloon, 1909-01 - 1909-02
Quarter-plate. [No print]. Missing.
A group at Bangalore, 1906-02-05 - 1906-02-06
A group of Ceylon treeferns, 1907
Half-plate. (Found in Ceylon only) at Hakgalla.
A group of elephants in state trappings, 1860 - 1869
292 x 225 mm. Viceregal elephants, probably at Barakpur.
A group of H.E. the Viceroy's elephants with their state trappings, 1860 - 1869
A group of native dancers who performed
342 x 268 mm (hand-coloured).
A group of screw pines, pandanus fascicularis, 1891
153 x 108 mm.
A group of the signal section, 1934
54 x 78 mm.
The UK Archival Thesaurus has been integrated with our catalogue, thanks to Kings College London and the AIM25 project for their support with this.

