Scope and Contents 213 x 272 mm. Showing the arrival of Sir Frank Swettenham (standing beside coach) at the wooden pavilion constructed for the conference of the rulers and administrators of the Federated Malay States held in Kuala Lumpur in July 1903. In the foreground stands a guard of honour of Indian Cavalry. This was the second such conference but this occasion did not yield such a whole hearted expression of appreciation of British rule as its precessor. In particular, the Sultan of Perak complained...

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283 x 215 mm. A view looking down on a deep cutting, with a ballast train being unloaded by Indian and Chinese labour. The photograph was probably taken on the Ulu Selangor extension between Kuala Lumpur and Kepong. This line, running north-west from Kuala Lumpur to connect it with the main mining areas, was started in 1890 and reached Rawing in 1892 and Kuala Kubu in 1894.

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166 x 214 mm. Showing the entrance to one of the Batu Caves situated about seven miles from Kuala Lumpur.

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165 x 215 mm (mounted on card). Showing the interior of one of the caves, with a group of Malay figures posed for scale in the middle ground.

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366 x 271 mm. A view looking down on the Padang from the roof of the Selangor Club with a football match in progress, spectators lining the pitch and a band playing at the left. Part of the Government Offices can be seen in the background.

Scope and Contents 357 x 272 mm. A group portrait of British and Malay dignitaries gathered in the garden of the Residency at Kuala Kangsar during the Federal Conference of 1897. With three elephants at the right of the print. At the start of the meeting a telegram telegram of loyalty from the Sultans to Queen Victoria was sent and in the following days various matters relating to federation were discussed. Figures so far identified in the print are: Sir Hugh CLIFFORD (1866-1941), seated on middle...

Scope and Contents 97 x 143 mm. A cabinet portrait showing a seated Hugh Clifford and the Hon. Martin Lister (1857-1897) standing behind him. Lister, after an unsuccessful planting career in Ceylon and Malaya was a local appointee, becoming Secretary to the British Resident, Perak in 1884; the following year he became Magistrate and Collector, Ulu Selangor, and in 1887 was appointed Superintendent, Negri [i.e. Negeri] Sembilan. He became the first Resident on the federation of old Negri Sembilan with Sungei...

Scope and Contents 264 x 207 mm (mounted on card). A view looking across Java Street towards the verandahed commercial premises of Chinese traders. Beyond these substantial stone buildings with tiled roofs are more modest atap houses. These more modern buildings are probably seen here soon after completion: one of the first orders promulgated by Swettenham on his arrival as Resident in 1882 was that all houses should be rebuilt with corrugated iron roofs. This order never came into effect, but in 1884 a...

Scope and Contents 265 x 207 mm (mounted on card). A view looking down onto the Klang River and across to Welds Hill (still at this period heavily wooded) with a sprinkling of Malay houses with atap roofs clustered around the river. The area in the foreground was later to be the site of the Government Offices and cricket ground. The view looks eastward from a point a little to the south of the confluence of the Klang and Gombah Rivers. The photograph dates from the period just after the British centre of...

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266 x 207 mm (mounted on card). A view, taken from a similar location to the preceding print, but nearer to the Klang River, looking across towards Weld's Hill, with atap houses in the foreground.

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264 x 207 mm (mounted on card). A view looking towards Welds Hill with atap houses in the foreground. A photograph probably taken from a spot near the east bank of the Klang River.

Scope and Contents 265 x 207 mm (mounted on card). A view from just above the west bank looking down onto the Klang River, with the atap houses of Kuala Lumpur on the far side. Beside the road in the foreground is an open-sided atap house where a number of carpenters are planing wood to form planks. The note in Swettenham's hand on the reverse reads: 'This is the point from which, in 1882, just to the right of the picture, the road started to ascend the hill on which were the Residency and all other...

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264 x 207 mm (mounted on card). A view looking across uneven, partially cleared scrubland towards (on the left) the square, two storey wooden quarters of Captain Syers, and (on the right) the Police Barracks, a series of long single storey buildings raised on brick pillars. Gullick (1955, p. 27-28) provides a detailed description of the buildings.

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274 x 208 mm. View looking across the harbour towards moored shipping and warehouses, with houses on piles and a cluster of palm trees in the foreground. Photographer unknown, probably G.R. Lambert and Co.

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275 x 209 mm. View from a wooded hillside looking towards the wharves and warehouses of the harbour area, with the channel beyond leading to the open sea. Photograher unknown, probably G.R. Lambert and Co.

Scope and Contents 264 x 207 mm (mounted on card). Showing the square two storey, Magistrate's quarters set among partially cleared scrubland with a somewhat overgrown garden area laid out in front of the building. The Magistrate's quarters were completed in 1883 according to the Annual Financial Report for Selangor for that year (in C. 4192 of 1884), but if this print shows the building during Henry Conway Belfields occupancy it must date from 1884 at the earliest, in which year Belfield was appointment to...

Scope and Contents 265 x 208 mm (mounted on card). Showing the Kuala Lumpur market buildings, an open sided building with a tiled roof supported by brick stanchions and situated near the east bank of the Klang River south of Market Street. The market and its site were originally under the control of the Capitan China Yap Ah Loy. Gullick (1955, p. 42) describes Swettenhams views on the market: On its reversion to the State, certain improvements were made to the building and shortly afterwards a more...

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163 x 110 mm. A view looking northwest over Kuala Lumpur from the Residency Hill. The Federal Government Offices can be seen in the distance. The buildings (erected 1893-1896) appear to be completed, although the clock for the central tower is not yet in position. This was imported from England and placed in the tower in 1897.

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272 x 206 mm. A view looking along Beach Street which runs NE-SW parallel to the waterfront and behind Victoria Street and Weld Quay. In the right foreground a three storey building houses G. Izolphe's hairdressing saloon, the Grand Hotel, the Pilots Club and Abdoul Sanat, watch-makers; these premises were later taken over by Kennedy and Co. Further down the street are the offices of the Pinang Gazette press, which in the left foreground are the Criterion Tiffin and Billiard Rooms.

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270 x 209 mm. A view looking north-east along the waterfront towards the jetty. With small sailing boats in the foreground.

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270 x 209 mm.

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395 x 283 mm. A view from the sea looking towards the Port Dickson waterfront, with warehouses and commercial premises lining the seafront. Situated 17 miles south-west of Seremban and the principal sea resort of Negri [i.e. Negeri] Sembilan, the town was originally known as Arang-Arang but was renamed Port Dickson in 1889 after Sir John Frederick Dickson (1835-1891) (Colonial Secretary of the Straits Settlements 1885-1891).

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270 x 194 mm. A view from a hillside looking down on to the railway station at Port Dickson with the sea beyond.

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270 x 194 mm. Duplicate.

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263 x 207 mm. View looking up the hillside towards St Thomas' Church, Kuching, a small wooden building with bell tower, erected and consecrated in 1851. Photographer unknown, probably G.R. Lambert and Co.