Asia (continent)
Found in 16196 Collections and/or Records:
Refreshments for all, 1910 - 1929
195 x 139 mm. Showing a Chinese woman and two Indian men eating at a street stall.
[Refuelling steamer], 1895
101 x 73 mm. Showing Burmese labourers carrying wood from a large stockpile at a steamer refuelling point.
Refugee children at school run by PNCC (Arab Church), 1949, 1949
156 x 113 mm. glossy print, with 56 mm. negative.
Refugee family outside tent, 1949
97 x 80 mm. glossy print, with 56 mm. negative.
Refugee schoolboys queuing for milk, 1949, 1949
130 x 115 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.
Refugees fleeing from Yokohama during 1923 earthquake and typhoon, 1923
Colour slide.
Refugees from Parit floods on hillside, 1926, 1926
195 x 59 mm. Showing a group of Chinese children standing on a hillside beside the Perak River.
Refugees on Bukit Kechil, 1926
155 x 102 mm. Showing refugees camped on the river bank after the 1926 flooding. Exact location unidentified, but a note on the reverse (in a different hand to the original caption) states that it is probably at Bukit Besar.
Regalia bearers of the Sultan of Selangor [1950s], 1950 - 1959
103 x 114 mm. Full length portrait of the four regalia bearers who accompany the Sultan on ceremonial occasions.
Regatta at Besut, Trengganu, 1920 - 1939
97 x 72 mm. A close-up view of a long racing manned by about 26 Malays with paddles. Kuala Besut is situated at the mouth of the Besut River, 50 miles north-west of Kuala Trengganu [i.e. Terengganu].
Regatta at Besut, Trengganu [i.e. Terengganu], 1920 - 1939
98 x 65 mm. A distant view of a number of racing canoes.
Regatta at Besut, Trengganu [i.e. Terengganu], 1920 - 1939
81 x 51 mm. A side on view of a single racing canoe.
Regatta at Besut, Trengganu [i.e. Terengganu], 1920 - 1939
96 x 71 mm. A head on view of a racing canoe coming towards the camera.
Regatta at Besut, Trengganu [i.e. Terengganu], 1920 - 1939
81 x 50 mm.
Regatta at Besut, Trengganu [i.e. Terengganu], 1920 - 1939
81 x 52 mm.
Reggy, Toots, 1870 - 1879
73 x 58 mm. Showing dogs posed on a table.
Rejak, a Malay, 1900
104 x 147 mm. Head and shoulders portrait.
Related documents, 2008 - 2009
Relations de l'Ambassade de M. de Chaumont à la Cour du Roy de Siam, 1686, 1825 - 1841
Translation. 4 pages.
Religion, 1982
Though Singapore is a secular state, freedom of worship is enshrined in the constitution. The main religions are Christianity, Hinduism and Islam. Places of worship for these religions are found throughout the island.
[Remains at Sigiriya], 1870 - 1871
286 x 221 mm. View looking up towards stone walls, probably fortifications on the lower slopes of Sigirya, with a vertical rock face rising at the right. Photograph probably by Joseph Lawton.
Remains of Bông Bridge, Natkyngon, '95, 1895
156 x 111 mm. Showing a partially dismantled, or destroyed, wooden bridge over a river. Precise location unidentified.
Remains of Col. Turner's House, 2 Wood St., 1864
253x179mm. Showing the ruins of Colonel Turner’s house after the cyclone of 4-5 October 1864. The whole wall of one side of the two storey building has been destroyed, leaving the interior exposed. For personal accounts of the storm, see Massey pp. 28-36 and Samuel R. Elson, ‘Personal memories and reminiscences of the Calcutta Cyclone of the 5th October 1864’ (‘Bengal Past and Present’, vol.II, no.1, January 1908, pp.120-125).
Remains of St James's Theatre, Circular Rd., 1864
247x179mm. Showing the ruins of the theatre after the 1864 cyclone, (Massey p.32).
Remains of the Temple of Venus. Kouklia, Paphos. Cyprus, 1900
An album containing postcard views of Cyprus. The postcards are by a variety of photographers and publishers.