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Malaysia (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2961 Collections and/or Records:

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Alma Tapioca estate from the Managers house, 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 10/62
Scope and Contents

240 x 180 mm. A view across a garden, over a river and towards land planted out with tapioca.

Dates: 1890 - 1899
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Alor Star , 1932

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031P/420
Scope and Contents

Kedah.

Dates: 1932
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Alor Star, Kedah [circa 1910], 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 6/27
Scope and Contents

136 x 85 mm. A postcard view (original print) showing a group of Malays standing beside a dead crocodile.

Dates: 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Alstonia scholaris, Trengganu [i.e. Terengganu], 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/425
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Photographs of trees, most are of Terengganu, some of Kelantan. The photographs are in good condition and measure approximately 65 x 65 mm.

Dates: 1930
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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'An account of a trip from Taiping to Upper Perak in February, 1899’, 1960 - 1962

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/4/2/1
Scope and Contents

The description of a fishing trip to Janing in Feb. 1899, which then formed the border between Perak and Siam [Thailand].

Dates: 1960 - 1962
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel MC47.
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An account of the British Military Administration of Upper Perak, Malaya, 1945-46, 2000-04-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/15/19
Scope and Contents

Haggard's memoir, based upon diaries and letters, describes his experiences of post-war reconstruction and the resumption of civil government (13 pages).

Dates: 2000-04-04
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this item must be viewed on Master Microfilm Reel 8239.
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‘An old time Malayan jury’, 1960 - 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/4/2/8
Scope and Contents

Clayton’s account of the last trial by jury held in the Federated Malay States. A man who had confessed himself guilty of murder was found to be innocent by a jury, whose members feared his ghost would haunt them if he were hanged (3 copies, 3 sheets).

Dates: 1960 - 1962
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel MC 47.
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An Orang Bukit girl, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035A/45
Scope and Contents

104 x 148 mm. Head and shoulders portrait of a Klemantan woman of the Baram District. See also Y3035A/126.

Dates: 1900
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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An Orang Bukit woman, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035A/125
Scope and Contents

148 x 103 mm. Half-length profile portrait of the woman seen in Y3035A/45.

Dates: 1900
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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An Orang Bukit Woman, 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035G/16
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Glass plate slides to illustrate a talk given by Cunynghame to the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. A transcript of the lecture, comprising a title page and 58 pages of text, is stored at RCMS 63/22.

Dates: 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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'An Unforgettable Hari Raja', 1960 - 1969

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/4/13
Scope and Contents

An account of personal misadventures coinciding with the Muslim festival in Ipoh during the 1930s (2 copies, 6 sheets).

Dates: 1960 - 1969
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
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Anecdotes, 1963-11

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/9/9
Scope and Contents

Brief anecdotes on W.J. Smith of the Public Works Department, L.A. Allen, E.N. Taylor and A.R. Thompson recorded in a letter and note written by Hugh Bryson (2 sheets).

Dates: 1963-11
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
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?Angsank Flring, K. Bahru [i.e. Kota Baharu], 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/420
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Photographs of trees, most are of Terengganu, some of Kelantan. The photographs are in good condition and measure approximately 65 x 65 mm.

Dates: 1930
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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?Angsank Flring, K. Bahru [i.e. Kota Baharu], 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/424
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Photographs of trees, most are of Terengganu, some of Kelantan. The photographs are in good condition and measure approximately 65 x 65 mm.

Dates: 1930
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Another crocodile lower down the Padas river, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4361
Scope and Contents From the File: The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 4312-4476 (originally there were 155). Added numbers are: 4340A, 4353A and 4462A; not used: 4322, 4381, 4394, 4396, 4401, 4415, 4418, 4425-4427, 4450, 4466 and 4467; missing: 4320, 4358, 4455 and 4456. Subjects covered in the album are: North Borneo: Kampong Binai and Tenon: sports; road making; tobacco growing; Dyaks; Penotal Gorge; Orang Outang; rubber planting: sago factory, Membakut; pitcher plant; Jesselton; Imanan...
Dates: 1909
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Ants nest on ?rotan, Fraser's Hill, Pahang, 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/713
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Glass negatives of Fraser's Hill in Pahang. Corner visited there on holiday with his sister in July 1937. However, these photographs date back to an earlier visit in 1930.

Dates: 1930
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[A.R. Chancellor as Chief Police Officer, Melaka, about 1905], 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031J/1
Scope and Contents

550 x 200 mm. Half-length portrait.

Dates: 1905
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[A.R. Chancellor as Chief Police Officer, Melaka, in 1903], 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031J/2
Scope and Contents

110 x 80 mm. Chancellor is seated in a one-horse carriage in front of a house, and a police constable stands in the background.

Dates: 1903
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Arabic coin from Malaya, 1950 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 18/91
Scope and Contents

136 x 107 mm. Showing a coin similar to those seen in the preceding print.

Dates: 1950 - 1969
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Arabic coin from Malaya, 1950 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 18/92
Scope and Contents

136 x 107 mm. Showing a circular coin with decorations in the form of a flower.

Dates: 1950 - 1969
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Arabic coins from Malaya, 1950 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 18/90
Scope and Contents

152 x 97 mm. Showing two unidentified hexagonal coins with Arabic script.

Dates: 1950 - 1969
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Sub-Series

Archives of Malayan Associations, 1942 - 1946

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/30
Scope and Contents

These records relate to various associations formed in Australia, India, Ceylon and South Africa by residents of Malaya displaced by the war. They provided information and assistance to evacuees, civilian internees, and prisoners of war.

Rules of the organisations, lists of members, minutes of meetings, memoranda, circulars, indemnity records and related correspondence (343 sheets).

Dates: 1942 - 1946
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reels 8237-8.
 Fonds

Archives of the British Association of Malaysia and Singapore

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103
Scope and Contents From 1952 to 1967 the Secretary of the Association was Hugh Bryson. He organised the accumulation of two important collections of historical material through the BAM. In 1960, in cooperation with the Royal Commonwealth Society, Bryson initiated the gathering of original documents - memoranda, diaries, correspondence - and the writing of special reminiscences by those with first hand experience of the geographic area covered by the Association. Subjects of particular significance include...
Dates: 1801 - 1970
Conditions Governing Access: Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
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Armistice Day at Kuala Kubu [i.e. Kuala Kubu Baharu], Selangor, 11 November 1918, 1918-11-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031G/3
Scope and Contents

220 x 175 mm. Group of fourteen men, mostly in uniform, outside the Kuala Kubu Club after a parade to celebrate the end of the war. It is accompanied by a manuscript account of the episode by Mrs Le Fevre (whose husband is in the group) and letters from A.R. Mynott and H.T. Stiven (also present) completing the identifications of the group, which appears in a typed list on the back of the photograph.

Dates: 1918-11-11
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Armistice Day K.L., 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031P/408
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The majority of the photographs relate to the early stages of Sheppard’s career with the Malayan Civil Service. They illustrate his accommodation; varied range of work in Kuala Lumpur, Pahang, Perak and Terengganu; Malay and European colleagues; official events, military service, travel and recreation. A number of prints are uncaptioned and have been provided with tentative titles in square brackets and approximate dates. The images begin with Sheppard's arrival in Jan. 1928...
Dates: 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).