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Malay Archipelago (general region)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 439 Collections and/or Records:

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Moorut after biting for dollars in a basin of flour, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4331
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. [Showing man with white hair and shoulders].

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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Mount Kinebalu from a hill at Usukan : Abai River in foreground, 1909-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 18/4288
Scope and Contents

Half-plate. [No print]. Missing.

Dates: 1909-01
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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Mourut and other boys, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4327
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). Flat race.

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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Mouruts walking the greasy pole, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4313
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Showing pole extended over the river with a person falling off the pole].

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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Mouruts walking the greasy pole, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4314
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Showing empty pole and audience on river bank watching candidate climbing out of the river].

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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Mouruts walking the greasy pole, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4315
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Showing person about half way along the pole above the river with audience looking 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).
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Mt Kinabalu form the sea opposite Tuaran, 1909-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 18/4282
Scope and Contents

Landscape format.

Dates: 1909-01
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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Mt Kinabalu from Government House, Jesselton : 6.30 am, 1909-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 18/4295
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. [Misty scene over the wooded hills].

Dates: 1909-01
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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Mt Kinabalu from the sea near Jesselton, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4380
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).
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Mt Kinabalu from Usukan, 1909-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 18/4289
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. Abai River in foreground. [Trees on both sides of the river].

Dates: 1909-01
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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Native boats up the Brunei River, 1908-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 18/4233
Scope and Contents

Landscape format.

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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Native Doosen Musical Instrument, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4389
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. Called a sumpitan (same word as for blow pipe for darts, meaning literally a tube or pipe). Mooruts also use this type of musical instrument.

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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Native sports at Kampong Binae [i.e. Binai ?] (5 Jan 1909), 1909-01-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 18/4309
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. Trimmed. To which natives from further up country came. Raft race: Ulu Mouruts.

Dates: 1909-01-05
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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Native women : Jesselton, 1908-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 18/4267
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. [Sitting on edge of the road, some under umbrella].

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).
 File

Negeri Sembilan, 1951-07-16 - 1959-10-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/2/3
Scope and Contents 1. Correspondence and notes relating to nationalisation legislation between the ruler of Negeri Sembilan, Tuanku Abdul Rahman, and Hugh Bryson (6 sheets).2. Correspondence between Hugh Bryson and M.C. ff Sheppard on the subject of the state succession (5 sheets).3. Correspondence and notes exchanged between Harry Miller and Hugh Bryson. Bryson assisted Miller in researching a biography of the first Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, Tuanku Abdul Rahman, by contacting Sir...
Dates: 1951-07-16 - 1959-10-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
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Negeri Sembilan State Executive Council, 1954-04 - 1954-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/1/5
Scope and Contents

Copies of the orders of the day, and minutes of meetings. Major subjects include constitutional matters, finance, defence, education, legal affairs, elections, land policy, and the granting of licenses for agriculture, commerce and industry (250 sheets).

Dates: 1954-04 - 1954-09
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
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Nepa palms, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4402
Scope and Contents

Up the Sakong river: used extensively for the light walls of rooms.

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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Objects and rules, 1943

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/30/2
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

These records relate to various associations formed in Australia, India, Ceylon and South Africa by residents of Malaya displaced by the war. They provided information and assistance to evacuees, civilian internees, and prisoners of war.

Rules of the organisations, lists of members, minutes of meetings, memoranda, circulars, indemnity records and related correspondence (343 sheets).

Dates: 1943
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reels 8237-8.
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Obstacle race, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4329
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). Over bamboos. [Showing boys scaling the smooth bamboo poles].

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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Obstacle race, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4330
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). Through barrels. [Showing six barrels suspended from a pole by ropes with an umpire in white trousers, with jacket and hat standing by].

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).
 Sub-Series

Office diary of Hubert Berkeley, 1886-07 - 1919

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/1/2
Scope and Contents

A three volume diary kept intermittently during Berkeley's career in the Perak police and as District Officer.

Dates: 1886-07 - 1919
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
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Oil from Borneo, 1940 - 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011R/14
Scope and Contents

167 x 115 mm. General exterior view of industrial plant. The caption on the reverse reads '(See Feature Set No. 268). (2). A three-language signboard gives 'No Smoking' directions in English, Chinese and Malay (Jawi script) near the Lutong oil distillation plant'.

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).
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On a coffee estate in Sumatra [circa 1900], 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 6/67
Scope and Contents

290 x 175 mm. Platinum print. A view looking along a row of coffee bushes, with female pickers on ladders, and European overseers in the background.

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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On a tobacco estate in Sumatra [circa 1900], 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 6/68
Scope and Contents

290 x 173 mm. Platinum print. A view looking across undulating land planted out with nearly ripe tobacco; with a European foreman dressed in white in the foreground.

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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On a tobacco estate in Sumatra [circa 1900], 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 6/69
Scope and Contents

290 x 174 mm. Platinum print. Showing Chinese labourers planting out seedlings in the nursery beds.

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).