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View looking across a grass compound towards the government offices, a row of single storied whitewashed buildings with verandahs and tiled roofs.

Scope and Contents From the File: Contains gravure prints (probably selected from a larger series). The majority have captions in pencil on the reverse, which have been recorded as found, and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. Captions for untitled prints composed for this catalogue, and other interpolations are enclosed in square brackets. The views mainly show scenes in Selangor, Perak and Pahang, with a...

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354 x 267 mm. Showing a group of Battak men, women and children posed in front of a house. Precise location of Low Melgup is unidentified.

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Quarter-plate. [Showing a row of boys photographed from one side, with palm trees and thatched houses in the background].

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353 x 267 mm. Showing a group of labourers at the edge of a tobacco field, with a long thatched building in the background. This is probably the Padana Djirmin Estate, a small plantation of 666 acres (in 1887) in the Selesse District. Owned by the Langkat Plantations Company and managed by A. Menzies.

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Landscape format. From Sarwak, taken at Sapong - (too dark for good photograph).

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Landscape format. From Sarwak, taken at Sapong.

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Landscape format. From Sarawak, taken at Sapong.

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Quarter-plate. In the distance are some Yomogang women from the Pagallan River with green leaves and bright scarlet hybiscus flowers in their hair. [Showing group in European dress and girl wearing tartan skirt].

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Quarter-plate. (Note brass coiled round arm and waist). [Showing woman with brass coiled round arm and waist carrying funnel-shaped container on her back standing with three other people].

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354 x 268 mm. A group photograph of Javanese men, women and children (probably tobacco estate workers) posed against a background of vegetation.

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287 x 231 mm. Showing a group of Kling (Tamil) men, women and children posed against a background of forest vegetation. Wright (1910) records a Bindjey Estate under the ownership of the Bindjey [i.e. Binjai] Tobacco Company. This company was not established until 1907 however, so this photograph would have been taken when the plantation was under an earlier owner.

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Landscape format. Kampong means village. [Group of nine, some blurred].

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). All Ulu Padas Peluans.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). To which natives from further up country came. Notice the spear-topped blowpipes or sumpitans.

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205 x 155 mm. Showing Gurkhas on patrol in an assault craft.

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207 x 154 mm. Showing a Gurkha signaller seated in front of radio equipment.

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206 x 152 mm. Showing a group of Gurkhas waiting beside a jungle airstrip, with helicopters refuelling at the right.

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156 x 205 mm. Showing a group of Gurkhas swimming across a river with their equipment.

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157 x 204 mm. Showing Gurkhas crossing a rough bamboo bridge at the edge of a jungle clearing.

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Showing open-sided huts beside a river in the jungle.

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Landscape format.

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213 x 166 mm. View showing part of the buildings seen in the preceding print, with the harbour beyond at right.

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The origin of this collection is not known, but it appears to have been assembled for a travelling exhibition, and each print is marked Copy neg. Photoscale May 1965. Sources are given where known. Prints are 215 x 160 mm.

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168 x 120 mm. View looking west-east along Heerenstraat, with commercial premises lining the right hand side of the street.