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...

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Showing a modern concrete and iron bridge sited next to a small Dyak bridge over a river.

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Portrait of three Dyak youths seated on steps leadingup to the verandah of a house.

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134 x 93 mm. Showing three Dyak men standing at the edge of a sports ground watching an event taking place outside the print.

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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275 x 194 mm. General view of Emmahaven and the surrounding inlet. Now known as Telukbayur, the harbour is situated four miles south of the town of Padang.

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274 x 205 mm. View looking along a wharf at Emmahaven, with a steam vessel moored in the foreground.

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...

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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Half-plate (landscape format). Staples of tobacco: large heaps fermenting covered with matting.

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On the Padas River. [Showing two men with an ax by a partly felled tree in the jungle].

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354 x 267 mm. A view looking across the Binjai River (the town of Binjai is situated 12 miles west of Medan) with the ferry moored at the bank in the foreground. A small pony trap stands on the ferry which is constructed from two canoes covered by a wooden platform. The vessel which crosses by means of the line running from bank to bank.

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Landscape format. [Distant view of screens among trees].

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Landscape format. [Distant view of screens among trees].

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Showing seven runners with round thatched huts and jungle in the background].

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). [The start of the race with audience behind and a large building in the background].

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Landscape format. [Showing footprints with the sea beyond].

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352 x 267 mm. A view looking across the river towards bungalows situated in a clearing on the far side. Two white uniformed Europeans are seated in a pony trap at the ford, while other figures watch the photographer from the bank. Balawen Deli lies at the mouth of the Deli River 15 miles north of Medan near Labuan Deli. The Soengal River has not been traced and is either possibly another name for the Deli, a tributary of that river, or a mis-spelling of the Sarangan River.

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Half-plate (landscape format). Trimmed. In far distance district (wettest in Brunei territory). [View of town on stilts]. Small-leaved Belunu and large-leaved Membagan trees in foreground.

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Half-plate (landscape format). Trimmed. [Similar to 4250].

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[No print]. Missing.

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Half-plate (landscape format). On the rubber estates. [Showing two European men dwarfed at the foot of the tree].

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Half-plate (landscape format). Mr and Mrs Gueritz in front of the house. [A cannon in the right foreground and Government beyond the stream on a rise with hills in the distance].

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166 x 110 mm. View from the Hooge Pad (High Path) looking towards the entrance of Government House. This view looks past the rusticated stone sentry posts towards the central block of the house, with two wings with colonnades flanking this building to the left and right.