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Sandakan

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Landscape format. [Four bullocks pulling roller].

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Showing an armed and uniformed policeman mounted on his horse.

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Landscape format. [Canoe with six paddling and one man standing looking towards the land].

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205 x 153 mm. Showing the mission buildings and wooden church, with jungle in the background.

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Showing a Chinese farmer ploughing a field with a wooden handplough drawn by a bullock.

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153 x 102 mm. Head and shoulders portrait of a masked Chinese actor.

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Landscape format.

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A view looking down from a hillside on to a settlement of thatched houses.

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146 x 105 mm. General view of the front of the temple.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Drying shed in the background. [Showing men at work with small bonfires].

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Drying shed in the background.

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Half-plate. Seen in previous picture.

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273 x 209 mm. View from a hillside looking down onto a row of thatched houses runing along beside the coal mine railway. The small trucks of coal are drawn by bullocks. Muara (also known as Brooketon) is situated some 13 miles east of Brunei Tarn and was a centre for coal mining by the British North Borneo Company until 1925. The town was completely destroyed during World War Two. Photograph by G.R. Lambert and Co.

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Quarter-plate. With prickly stems bound round the trunk to stop rats and squirrels.

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Copy of a letter describing the bombing of Kuching during the Second World War and Kelley's eventual evacuation to Sydney, following a trek through the jungle of Dutch Borneo (16 sheets).

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195 x 140 mm. View looking along a river towards distant mountains.

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...

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). [River bank thick with vegetation with river in the foreground].

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). The Bakau Co Ltd: turns out about 80 tons per month: exported to England, France Germany, Holland, U.S.A. The best cutch is obtained from the Tungah tree. Tungah tree gives 61-63% of tannin absorbable by hide. [Showing forest behind and a tram-lines leading from the works along ? pier].

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Sold to Chinese Traders. [Showing milling group with man carrying back pannier with a large container tied on top, possibly containing damar].

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Quarter-plate.

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133 x 104 mm. Showing a medical orderly administering the injection.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection was originally housed in seven boxes, four of which were specially made with individual slots for slides. These were numbered 3, 6, 10 and 11 and the remaining boxes were unnumbered. Presumably these formed part of a larger collection, but nothing is known of the original owner or the fate of any other boxes. For conservation reasons, the collection has since been re-boxed. The captions given are normally those which appear on the slides themselves. They have been used as...

Scope and Contents 266 x 207 mm. An elaborately posed group in front of their house. The photographer has been at pains to introduce into the picture as many artefacts and utensils as possible.Roth identifies the following components of the photograph:A slabit for carrying back loads; behind it the frame on which the women stretch their yarn for tying in the patterns by the process of saving, and afterwards brushing on the dye.Thin drum, with fish trap (ensenga) behind it; further to the...