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270 x 209 mm. A view looking along the Langkat River with houses on stilts in the left foreground and a few figures posed beside their boats at the water's edge.

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278 x 207 mm. A view looking along an unidentified stretch of the Lankat River towards its junction with another river.

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Landscape format. [Using hook and chain pulley]

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...

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Fields marked out though a few tree trunks remain].

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167 x 110 mm. View looking along the water-front of Macassar Harbour, with the steamer Ban Poh Guan moored at the pier in the foreground and sailing ships beyond. As the capital of the Celebes and a free port, Macassar was the busiest trading port in the archipelago.

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[Showing Chinese labourer digging the drain].

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Landscape format. Chinese coolies.

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Correspondence relating to the response of the Malayan police to racial and religious riots in Singapore. The riots were inspired by a court ruling in the custody battle over Maria Hertogh, which was won by her Dutch birth parents over her Muslim Malay adoptive parents, who had educated her as a Muslim (16 sheets).

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Material related to concern for the welfare of Malayan students in Great Britain, and their exposure to Communist influences, expressed by the Association of British Malaya. The file includes minutes of a meeting at the Colonial Office on 27 June 1950, the draft of a paragraph for insertion in the April 1950 edition of ‘British Malaya’, and associated correspondence (12 sheets).

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Correspondence between Hugh Bryson and James de Vere Allen on the research and publication of the latter’s book, ‘The Malayan Union’, and on Allen’s research for an article on Terengganu during the early twentieth century. Several letters refer to Sir Edward Gent and the Malayan Emergency (21 sheets).

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Annotated script of a radio documentary broadcast during the Malayan Emergency (2 sheets).

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154 x 104 mm. A view looking down on the Padang with figrues spelling out the word Merdaka (independence) across the stadium.

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154 x 105 mm. Showing the Chief Minister taking the salute at a march past.

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154 x 104 mm. View looking down on the parade.

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350 x 265 mm. Showing a group of European men and women posed on a tennis court, with servants standing behind and a two storey wooden house with thatched roof, and a verandah on the first floor, in the background.

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Landscape format. About $1500 ($ = 2s/4d) worth of birdsnests (edible) are collected and exported annually from this island : it is about 3 hours sail from Usukan Bay.

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244 x 171 mm. Aerial view looking over the town of Miri, with the South China Sea beyond. Miri is situated 75 miles south-west of Brunei.

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Contains loose prints from the 1950s and 1960s, supplementing the main historical collection. The main subjects are 44-57, 63-70 Indigenous peoples; 93-109 ceremonies (including Merdeka, 1957, 96-98); 110-121 Gurkhas; 122-139 Sarawak; 140-179 Singapore (including official visits and formal occasions).

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Photograph by Sabah Information Service.

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A view showing a farming scene in Pulau Ambon, with cattle in the foreground, a banana plantation beyond and the sea in the distance. Pulau Ambon lies off the south-west coast of Seram, the largest of the Moluccan Islands.

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A view looking along a residential street of white washed houses with thatched roofs in Ternate.

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A view looking aling a tree-shaded street in Ternate.

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A view looking along a tree-shaded road in Ternate with a group of children gathered in the distance.

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A view showing a steamship moored to a jetty in Ternate Harbour with the volcano looming in the background. Ternate is one of the smaller Moluccan islands lying off the West coast of Halmahera. A clear, well-composed photograph.