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170 x 118 mm. View looking along a canal lined with small steam vessels.

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Showing cumulus clouds over a river.

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Glass and film negatives. The label lists at least four other places, which are illegible. Numbers 521-524 and 526 have camera specifications written in pencil underneath the captions.

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251 x 168 mm. General view of the harbour and waterfront area of Kuching, the capital of Sarawak, with mountains in the distance.

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General view looking along the Sarawak River towards the town, with Gunong (mountain) Matang in the distance.

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The Resident coming out in his boat. [Showing sailing boat with land in the distance].

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Plants growing beside the road.

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Plants growing beside the road.

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158 x 107 mm. View looking along the extended, atap roofed house.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). [A closer view than previous print].

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274 x 208 mm. A view looking across the river, with off-loaded timber, a bullock cart and labourers grouped on the open space in the foreground. The Deli River rises at Mt Sibayak in north-east Sumatra and flows northwards for 60 miles past Medan and Labuan Deli to the Strait of Malacca.

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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.