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Malaysia (nation)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2963 Collections and/or Records:

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Astana (Bukit Petri), Kuala Trengganu, 1920 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 16/105
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154 x 101 mm. A view taken during an unidentified occasion at the Sultan of Trengganus palace, looking down onto the lawn in front of the building where a contingent of Malay soldiers and a military band is on parade. Groups of officials and other spectators are gathered at the edge of the lawn and in front of the palace itself.

Dates: 1920 - 1939
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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Astana (Bukit Petri), Trengganu, 1920 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 16/106
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99 x 75 mm. A view taken at the same occasion as the preceding print, but only showing a corner of the palace, with the military band in the foreground. The officials and servatns holding umbrellas near the entrance to the Astana are turned away from the camera, presumably waiting for the Sultan to emerge.

Dates: 1920 - 1939
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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At a birthday parade, Seremban, 1931 or 1932, 1931 - 1932

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 5/12
Scope and Contents 134 x 87 mm. Showing officers on parade with civilian spectators in the background. The identified figures in the group are: Ewald Egerton Herbert BECK (1894-1976); Police Probationer, F.M.S. (Federated Malay States), 1914; Chief Police Officer, Negri Sembilan 1932; Frank Leonard HARDING (1894-); Surveyor-on-Agreement, F.M.S. and Straits Settlements 1924; Town Planning Superintendent, Negri Sembilan 1930-1934 (retired); CORKE (no information); DRYSDALE; (no information); Tunku ZAKARIAH;...
Dates: 1931 - 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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At a village window, 1904 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 12/31
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Showing Malay children looking out from a thatched hut.

Dates: 1904 - 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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At Chenering Head, 1927 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 16/51
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55 x 97 mm. Showing the palm-fringed beach at Chenering Head.

Dates: 1927 - 1929
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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At Chenering Head during N.E. monsoon, 1927 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 16/46
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74 x 103 mm. Showing waves lashing the rock foundations at Chenering Head.

Dates: 1927 - 1929
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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At Chenering Head during N.E. monsoon, 1927 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 16/48
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97 x 73 mm. Showing waves striking the rocks on the beach at Chenering Head.

Dates: 1927 - 1929
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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At Chenering Head during N.E. monsoon, 1927 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 16/49
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76 x 128 mm. A view from the top of the cliffs at Chenering Head, looking down onto the turbulent sea.

Dates: 1927 - 1929
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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At Chenering Head during N.E. Monsoon, about 3 miles south of Kuala Trengganu [i.e. Terengganu], 1927 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 16/45
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75 x 130 mm. Showing the palm-fringed beach at Chenering Head.

Dates: 1927 - 1929
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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At Chenering Head, Kuala Trengganu [i.e. Terengganu], 1927 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 16/50
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59 x 104 mm. A view looking out from a cave, along the rocky seashore.

Dates: 1927 - 1929
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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At Morib, Selangor, 1904 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 12/137
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View looking along a path towards a European figure dressed in a sarong.

Dates: 1904 - 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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At police guard post at top of pass on road from Seremban to Kuala Pilah, 1950, 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 5/71
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80 x 129 mm. Showing H. P. Bryson posing for his photograph with a Malay policeman standing at attention in the back ground.

Dates: 1950
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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At Puchong , 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031P/164
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Near Japanese mine started 1933 still going strong 1937.

Dates: 1937
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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At Puchong , 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031P/165
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Near Japanese mine started 1933 still going strong 1937.

Dates: 1937
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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At Sri Menanti, Negri Sembilan, Durbar 1932, 1932

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 16/87
Scope and Contents 162 x 90 mm. A formal group portrait of the officials present at the 1932 durbar held at Sri Menanti, palace of the Yang di-Petuan Besar at Seremban. The figures in the group are: [?] Al-Mutasim Billah al-Sultan ABDULLAH (d 1932); Sultan of Pahang circa 1918-1932. Brysons caption identified this figure as Sultan Ahmad, but this is surely incorrect: Sultan Ahmad (circa 1881-1938) had ruled Pahang since 1865. On his death in 1914 his son Mahmad succeeded him and he in turn was succeeded...
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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At the dam site, Perak River [1925], 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 3/39
Scope and Contents

137 x 79 mm. Showing uncleared land at the site of the proposed dam for the Perak River Hydro-Electric scheme, the agreement for which was signed in December 1925. For details of the scheme, see Barlow (1926, p. 20-22).

Dates: 1925
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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At the dam site, Perak River [1925], 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 3/40
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137 x 79 mm. Showing uncleared jungle on the west bank, with two Malay youths standing in the foreground. See preceding print. Photograph probably by Sir Montague Barlow.

Dates: 1925
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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At the Tamu on the Inanam River, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4387
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Quarter-plate (landscape format). [A crowd of traders].

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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[? Attorney Generals Department, Straits Settlements, 1925-1929], 1925 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 2/6
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279 x 229 mm (mounted on card). Uncaptioned and without identification. A group portrait. The central figure is Sir Michael Henry WHITLEY (1872-1959), Attorney General of the Straits Settlements from 1925-1929 and the group, which only includes one other European, probably shows members of his staff.

Dates: 1925 - 1929
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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Auto mail service, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 17/81
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80 x 156 mm. Showing two mail lorries halted on a jungle road (probably the Kuala Kubu road).

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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Autobiographical note, 1903 - 1961-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/3/4
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Memoir by A.R. Chancellor of his service with the colonial police in Barbados and the Straights Settlements (7 sheets), with correspondence relating to its acquisition. There is a second brief note entitled 'My two adventures with crocodiles', probably also written by Chancellor.

The file contains two photographs, the first of Chancellor as C.P.O. Malacca [Melaka], taken in 1905, and the second of a Melakan police constable in 1903.

Dates: 1903 - 1961-07
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel 8226C.
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Awat-awat, a Malay Fishing Village at the mouth of the Trusan, 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035G/4
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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Awat-awat a Malay fishing village at the mouth of the Trusan River, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035A/98
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148 x 103 mm. View from the jetty looking towards waterside houses raised on piles, with a long, slender launch in the foreground. Charles Hose stands amidships in this boat.

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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Bachelors quarters in Dyak village - the heads are kept here; Land Dyaks, Tabakong, Ulu Sadong, 1904 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 12/56
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Showing a wood and thatched hut raised on piles, with a group of Dyak youths gathered at an opening in the roof.

Dates: 1904 - 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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Back view of house at Penang, 1884

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 2/28
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206 x 157 mm. A view from the garden showing a substantial two-storied residence with verandahs and thatched roof. Exact location is unidentified, but this and the following print are good examples of European domestic dwellings in the tropics. The house was possibly Cameron's own residence. Photograph probably taken by M.A. Cameron.

Dates: 1884
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).