175 x 290 mm. Platinum print. Showing a labourer on a ladder removing the seed pods from a ripe tobacco plant.

Landscape format.

Group portrait of Dyaks.

275 x 209 mm. This photograph shows the Tegora Hill Cinnabar Mines and possibly dates from as early as 1867. Photographer unknown.

240 x 188 mm. A view looking down on Chinese gardens and labourers' house in a jungle clearing at the Tegora Hill Cinnabar Mines situated some 60 miles from Kuching. The houses raised off the ground are Malay houses. A note on the reverse states that the tree in the centre of the print is a Tapa tree and supposed to be upwards of 200 feet high with parasitic pine in branches.

Quarter-plate (landscape format). Prisoners clearing the ground, which has to be kept constantly clear of grass. In the foreground are bullock carts used for carting tobacco: there are so very few wheeled vehicles in Borneo even in the coast towns that a sight of one is always noticeable. [Showing neatly thatched fermenting shed in background, the carts at the left and the prisoners in a row just in front of the shed].

[Showing thatched building beyond the tracks with jungle in the background and a tree stump in the foreground].

167 x 118 mm. General view from across a canal looking towards the Government Offices.

Copies of four documents (in Malay) with correspondence regarding their acquisition and the proposed copying of other papers:

1. 'History of the dignity of Rantau Wari di Ayer' (1 sheet)

2. 'Installation of Yam Tuan Muhammad' (4 sheets)

3. 'Installation of Tuanku Ampuan' (4 sheets)

4. 'The changing of the title Yang di-Pertuan to Sultan' (4 sheets).

A series of photographs of the University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, which was founded in 1965.

A series of photographs and albums relating to the University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, which was founded in 1965.

[Single track railway line through cutting in rock. Man walking along ahead].

[Showing single line going down into the tunnel].

Swettenham's manuscript journal (80 sheets) with two typescript copies and correspondence relating to its editing for publication.

Unsigned, undated copy of a proclamation by Sultan Abdullah of Perak opening up the state to economic development, accompanied by a note concerning its provenance (2 sheets).

A view looking along an unidentified street in Manila with pedestrians and a pony trap in the roadway.

Half-plate. On the Lekas plain near Jesselton: the stick placed in ground measures 34 inches from the paper at its base.

278 x 208 mm. A view looking towards a small hill at the top of which stands a thatched bungalow. A lawn and neatly tended garden stand in front of the house, while a party of men is engaged in clearing land in the foreground. With a banana plantation at the right and jungle in the background.

Half-plate (landscape format). From verandah of the Residents House: note the English Church.

This relates to a later stage in McKay's career than any of the other albums. Apart from its serial number 20, it is marked on the cover 'Album No 4' possibly of a collection of professional photographs made by McKay.

170 x 120 mm. General view of the Protestant Church on Heerenstraat, with a well in the foreground. The main body of the church is polygonal, capped by an unattractive dome. The main entrance from Heerenstraat is in the form of two towers fronted by a portico.

215 x 138 mm. View looking along the bridge, seen here in the course of construction. The bridge crosses the River Pasig in two arms which meet at the tip of an island in the centre of the river (probably the Isla Convalecencia).

Transcripts of broadcasts by Michael J. Smee.

Landscape format. [Spectators on the bank with rafters on the water and three rafting in the distance].

Distant view looking across the river towards the palace.