Borneo (island)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 291 Collections and/or Records:
Item
3 Mourut women in egg and spoon race, 1909
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4328
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format).
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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A Chinese temple, Kuching, 1904 - 1910
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 12/38
Scope and Contents
As captioned.
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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A Chinese temple, Kuching, 1904 - 1910
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 12/42
Scope and Contents
Showing the entrance to the temple, a single storey building with ornately decorated roof ridges.
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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A garden in Kuching : Moirs garden, 1904 - 1910
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 12/47
Scope and Contents
View looking along a tree-shaded path in a Kuching garden.
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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A house in Kuching, Sarawak, 1904 - 1910
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 12/43
Scope and Contents
General view of a European house in Kuching, a two storey building with a colonnaded verandah on the ground floor. The verandah on the floor above is shaded with cane blinds.
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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A land Dyak who insisted on being photographed in a red plush Chinese hat and Chinese trousers, Tabekang, Ulu Sadong, 1904 - 1910
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 12/49
Scope and Contents
Full length portrait.
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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A market at Brunei, 1908-12
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 18/4243
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. Market boats on the water. [Hut on stilts in the water too].
Dates:
1908-12
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 pakarangan or long native boat which carries a sail 18 feet square, on board the Marudu, 1908-12
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 18/4260
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. [Picture printed in reverse - 1070 on end of pakarangan. Barrels along side of steamer].
Dates:
1908-12
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).
Item
A picnic up-country in Borneo, 1909
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4391
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate. [Showing group of 8 Europeans sitting on the ground with jungle behind. Women (4) in long white dresses and with hats with two men in white with topees and two more in dark clothes. 12 copies of the print were sent to Mrs Gueritz, Government House, Sandakan, North Borneo on 29.04.09, so maybe her picnic]
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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A street in Brunei, 1908-12
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 18/4255
Scope and Contents
Half-plate. [Children standing about on the roads - logs on stilts linking the houses].
Dates:
1908-12
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).
Item
[A sumpitan match], 1909
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4321
Scope and Contents
Half-plate (landscape format). [Mouruts: shooting darts with blow pipes at a running deer]. [Showing crowds around edge of open grass area with running deer - a short fence of wooden sticks with palm leaves. Behind crowd, are thatched houses among thick vegtation].
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).
Item
A sumpitan match : Mouruts, 1909
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4319
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Showing audience of natives and some Europeans with palm trees in the background].
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).
Item
A sumpitan match. Mouruts : shooting darts with blow pipes at a running deer, 1909
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4320
Scope and Contents
Half-plate. [No print]. Missing.
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).
Item
A tobacco field just picked off, 1909
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4346
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). The tobacco here grown is all for the outside covering leaves of cigars.
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).
Item
A Tomogong Mourut from the Pagallan River, Yenous district, 1909
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4317
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate. Putting on the chowat or loin cloth: note length of cloth and method of putting it on.
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).
Item
A traveller's palm, 1904
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3034A/34
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Album of prints, measuring 95 x 70 mm, presumably taken by Walter Buchanan-Smith during his service as a cadet under the British North Borneo Company. The captions have been used as titles and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of their creation.
Dates:
1904
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).
Item
A typical out station up the Inanam River, 1909
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4382
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). A typical district officers boat of state (pukerangin).
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).
Item
A village in Dutch Borneo, 1870 - 1900
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/35
Scope and Contents
244 x 175 mm. View looking across swampy ground towards the houses of a village sited on both banks of a wide river.
Dates:
1870 - 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).
Item
Administration. Police, Education, Hospitals, 1940 - 1959
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011R/13
Scope and Contents
114 x 141 mm. In British North Borneo now known as Sabah. The caption on the reverse reads '(13). Most populous of the inhabitants of the Interior are the Muruts. District officer Claridge talks with one of them, examines his sword decorated with the hair from a scalp'.
Dates:
1940 - 1959
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).
Item
Administrative officer marking census in Iban longhouse, Sarawak [circa 1960], 1960
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 18/135
Scope and Contents
159 x 110 mm. As captioned.
Dates:
1960
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).
Item
Another crocodile lower down the Padas river, 1909
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).
Item
Arrival of Governor Humphreys at Jesselton, British North Borneo, October 1926, 1926-10
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 6/72
Scope and Contents
133 x 87 mm. Showing John Lisseter HUMPHREYS (1881-1929) inspecting a guard of honour of Indian soldiers on his arrival at Jessleton to take up his appointment as Governor of British North Borneo. Humphreys, who entered the Straits Settlement Civil Service in 1905, died while on leave in China after three years as Governor of British North Borneo.
Dates:
1926-10
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).
Item
Assistant's bungalow on the same estate, 1909
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4339
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Showing large bungalow surrounded by trees, with a river in the foreground].
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).
Item
At a Tamu, local market, Borneo, 1960 - 1969
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302D/10
Scope and Contents
242 x 171 mm. Market scene with vendors and their produce.
Dates:
1960 - 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).
Item
At the Tamu on the Inanam River, 1909
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4387
Scope and Contents
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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