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Malay Archipelago (general region)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 457 Collections and/or Records:

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Malaysia Day Rally at Central Padang, Kuching, Sarawak, 1968, 1968

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 18/131
Scope and Contents

154 x 104 mm. View looking down on the parade.

Dates: 1968
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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Managers house, Brahrang, Lankat, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 10/26
Scope and Contents

350 x 265 mm. Showing a group of European men and women posed on a tennis court, with servants standing behind and a two storey wooden house with thatched roof, and a verandah on the first floor, in the background.

Dates: 1880 - 1889
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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Mantanani, 1909-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 18/4291
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. About $1500 ($ = 2s/4d) worth of birdsnests (edible) are collected and exported annually from this island : it is about 3 hours sail from Usukan Bay.

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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Miri, Sarawak, 1960

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035D/3
Scope and Contents

244 x 171 mm. Aerial view looking over the town of Miri, with the South China Sea beyond. Miri is situated 75 miles south-west of Brunei.

Dates: 1960
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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Modern and miscellaneous prints, 1950 - 1969

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 18
Scope and Contents

Contains loose prints from the 1950s and 1960s, supplementing the main historical collection. The main subjects are 44-57, 63-70 Indigenous peoples; 93-109 ceremonies (including Merdeka, 1957, 96-98); 110-121 Gurkhas; 122-139 Sarawak; 140-179 Singapore (including official visits and formal occasions).

Dates: 1950 - 1969
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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[Modern school, Sabah], 1965

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031A/19
Scope and Contents

Photograph by Sabah Information Service.

Dates: 1965
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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Moluccos Is, Amboina [i.e. Pulau Ambon]. 1910, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/271
Scope and Contents

A view showing a farming scene in Pulau Ambon, with cattle in the foreground, a banana plantation beyond and the sea in the distance. Pulau Ambon lies off the south-west coast of Seram, the largest of the Moluccan Islands.

Dates: 1910
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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Moluccos Is. - Ternate, 1910 - 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/269
Scope and Contents

A view looking along a residential street of white washed houses with thatched roofs in Ternate.

Dates: 1910 - 1915
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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Moluccos Is - Ternate. 1910, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/267
Scope and Contents

A view looking aling a tree-shaded street in Ternate.

Dates: 1910
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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Moluccos Is. - Ternate. 1910, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/268
Scope and Contents

A view looking along a tree-shaded road in Ternate with a group of children gathered in the distance.

Dates: 1910
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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Moluccos Is - Ternate, Volcano, 1910 - 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/266
Scope and Contents

A view showing a steamship moored to a jetty in Ternate Harbour with the volcano looming in the background. Ternate is one of the smaller Moluccan islands lying off the West coast of Halmahera. A clear, well-composed photograph.

Dates: 1910 - 1915
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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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).