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A view showing workers carrying wicker baskets filled with coal onto a moored ship (probably the 'Indrawadi').

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An underexposed print showing a ship's officer standing in a shady square in Sabang with a bar in the background.

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A view looking along a street in Sabang with parkland and trees at the right of the slide.

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A view showing a stone gateway and a tree in Sabang with grassland beyond. Presumably the remains of a more extensive wall.

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A view showing a white-suited figure standing in a roadway in Sabang with a large white house and palm trees behind him.

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A view showing a ship's officer and a man holding up an octopus for the camera.

Scope and Contents Album of photographs of various sizes with one loose one inserted. A note by the donor E. Walker states that the photographs, ‘were taken mostly by one of the brothers Logan of Penang, members of the legal profession and after one of whom Logan Road, Penang was named. The name is (or was) associated with the legal firm of Logan, Ross and Samuels, Penang.’ The plates have hand-written captions, which have been recorded as found. Nos 1-26 relate to Sumatra, 27-41 to Singapore and 42-63 to...

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External view.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a private album, measuring 260 x 230 mm, containing photographs of various formats taken by an amateur, supplemented by landscapes bought from commercial studios. Most images are captioned in white ink and captions have been recorded as found. They may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. The captions have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. A number of photographs are missing, although their captions remain. The...

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These notes chronicle Bell’s retirement in Cannes, his interests, social life and personal affairs, and his frequent travels, including an extensive tour of the Far East during 1925-26 to examine French and Dutch methods of colonial government (circa 80 sheets).

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240 x 196 mm. View looking down into the crater of the Tangkoeban Prahoe, some 18 miles from Bandung. This view probably shows the Kawa Oepas, the smaller of the two craters, which contains a muddy lake.

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240 x 192 mm. View looking across a hilly landscape planted out with tea, with estate buildings dotted here and there, and a cloud-wreathed mountain in the background. Garut, in the Preanger District, is situated 30 miles SE of Bandung.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a private album, measuring 260 x 230 mm, containing photographs of various formats taken by an amateur, supplemented by landscapes bought from commercial studios. Most images are captioned in white ink and captions have been recorded as found. They may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. The captions have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. A number of photographs are missing, although their captions remain. The...

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Image of a boat.

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241 x 193 mm. Group portrait of the gamelan or band of the Sultan of Surakarta seated on the ground in front of a bungalow with their instruments - a varied collection of gongs, drums and xylophones.

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275 x 201 mm. View looking along the river (here embanked to form a canal), with a tree-lined avenue running along the left-hand bank.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a private album, measuring 260 x 230 mm, containing photographs of various formats taken by an amateur, supplemented by landscapes bought from commercial studios. Most images are captioned in white ink and captions have been recorded as found. They may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. The captions have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. A number of photographs are missing, although their captions remain. The...

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Steam engine pulling cargo of sugar cane.

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Rail engine used in the transport of sugar cane.

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353 x 267 mm. A view looking across undulating, newly-cleared land planted out with rows of tobacco seedlings. A photograph probably taken a short time after the covers, used to protect the seedlings from the sun, had been removed. The plants are ready for harvesting some 80-90 days after the seedlings have been transplanted and after one crop the land was either abandoned or put to other uses for several years before tobacco was planted there again.

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352 x 267 mm. A view looking across fields of growing tobacco, with plantation buildings in the distance. This is probably the Paya Dajamboe Estate, in the Selesse District, owned by the Paya Dajamboe Company and managed in 1887 by J. Peachey. Its size in that year was 2, 666 acres.

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240 x 187 mm. View looking along the road at the summit of the pass towards a toll booth.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a private album, measuring 260 x 230 mm, containing photographs of various formats taken by an amateur, supplemented by landscapes bought from commercial studios. Most images are captioned in white ink and captions have been recorded as found. They may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. The captions have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. A number of photographs are missing, although their captions remain. The...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A collection of albums, containing captioned black and white photographs, taken by one, or more, people travelling in the same group. The albums form a photographic account of a six-month long touring holiday.Of the albums, the first ten are all of the same style and manufacture and each has an embossed title on the front. They follow the journey chronologically. The remaining two contain a smaller selection of images from the same journey, again in chronological order. They are...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a private album, measuring 260 x 230 mm, containing photographs of various formats taken by an amateur, supplemented by landscapes bought from commercial studios. Most images are captioned in white ink and captions have been recorded as found. They may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. The captions have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. A number of photographs are missing, although their captions remain. The...