Malay Archipelago (general region)
Found in 457 Collections and/or Records:
Negeri Sembilan, 1951-07-16 - 1959-10-12
Negeri Sembilan State Executive Council, 1954-04 - 1954-09
Copies of the orders of the day, and minutes of meetings. Major subjects include constitutional matters, finance, defence, education, legal affairs, elections, land policy, and the granting of licenses for agriculture, commerce and industry (250 sheets).
Nepa palms, 1909
Up the Sakong river: used extensively for the light walls of rooms.
Objects and rules, 1943
These records relate to various associations formed in Australia, India, Ceylon and South Africa by residents of Malaya displaced by the war. They provided information and assistance to evacuees, civilian internees, and prisoners of war.
Rules of the organisations, lists of members, minutes of meetings, memoranda, circulars, indemnity records and related correspondence (343 sheets).
Obstacle race, 1909
Quarter-plate (landscape format). Over bamboos. [Showing boys scaling the smooth bamboo poles].
Obstacle race, 1909
Quarter-plate (landscape format). Through barrels. [Showing six barrels suspended from a pole by ropes with an umpire in white trousers, with jacket and hat standing by].
Office diary of Hubert Berkeley, 1886-07 - 1919
A three volume diary kept intermittently during Berkeley's career in the Perak police and as District Officer.
Oil from Borneo, 1940 - 1959
167 x 115 mm. General exterior view of industrial plant. The caption on the reverse reads '(See Feature Set No. 268). (2). A three-language signboard gives 'No Smoking' directions in English, Chinese and Malay (Jawi script) near the Lutong oil distillation plant'.
On a coffee estate in Sumatra [circa 1900], 1900
290 x 175 mm. Platinum print. A view looking along a row of coffee bushes, with female pickers on ladders, and European overseers in the background.
On a tobacco estate in Sumatra [circa 1900], 1900
290 x 173 mm. Platinum print. A view looking across undulating land planted out with nearly ripe tobacco; with a European foreman dressed in white in the foreground.
On a tobacco estate in Sumatra [circa 1900], 1900
290 x 174 mm. Platinum print. Showing Chinese labourers planting out seedlings in the nursery beds.
On a tobacco estate in Sumatra [circa 1900], 1900
175 x 290 mm. Platinum print. Showing a labourer on a ladder removing the seed pods from a ripe tobacco plant.
On the Brunei River, 1908-12
Landscape format.
On the Sadong River, 1904 - 1910
Group portrait of Dyaks.
Opening a plantation, Borneo, 1880 - 1889
275 x 209 mm. This photograph shows the Tegora Hill Cinnabar Mines and possibly dates from as early as 1867. Photographer unknown.
Opening of the Cinnabar mines in Tegora Hill, Upper Sarawak, 1880, 1880
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.
Outside the fermenting shed, 1909
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].
Pangya Railway station, 1909
[Showing thatched building beyond the tracks with jungle in the background and a tree stump in the foreground].
Panorama (Paradeplein), Samarang, 1880 - 1899
167 x 118 mm. General view from across a canal looking towards the Government Offices.
Papers of Dato Klana Maamor bin Kassim, 1927 - 1934
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).
Papua New Guinea, 1965 - 1986
A series of photographs and albums relating to the University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, which was founded in 1965.
Papua New Guinea, 1965 - 1991
A series of photographs of the University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, which was founded in 1965.
Pengalat Cutting, 1909-01
[Single track railway line through cutting in rock. Man walking along ahead].
Pengalat Tunnel from the south, 1909-01
[Showing single line going down into the tunnel].
Perak journal, 1874-04-04 - 1951-02-28
Swettenham's manuscript journal (80 sheets) with two typescript copies and correspondence relating to its editing for publication.