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Malay Archipelago (general region)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 457 Collections and/or Records:

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Negeri Sembilan, 1951-07-16 - 1959-10-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/2/3
Scope and Contents 1. Correspondence and notes relating to nationalisation legislation between the ruler of Negeri Sembilan, Tuanku Abdul Rahman, and Hugh Bryson (6 sheets).2. Correspondence between Hugh Bryson and M.C. ff Sheppard on the subject of the state succession (5 sheets).3. Correspondence and notes exchanged between Harry Miller and Hugh Bryson. Bryson assisted Miller in researching a biography of the first Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, Tuanku Abdul Rahman, by contacting Sir...
Dates: 1951-07-16 - 1959-10-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
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Negeri Sembilan State Executive Council, 1954-04 - 1954-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/1/5
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: 1954-04 - 1954-09
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
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Nepa palms, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4402
Scope and Contents

Up the Sakong river: used extensively for the light walls of rooms.

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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Objects and rules, 1943

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/30/2
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

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).

Dates: 1943
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reels 8237-8.
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Obstacle race, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4329
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). Over bamboos. [Showing boys scaling the smooth bamboo poles].

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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Obstacle race, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4330
Scope and Contents

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].

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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Office diary of Hubert Berkeley, 1886-07 - 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/1/2
Scope and Contents

A three volume diary kept intermittently during Berkeley's career in the Perak police and as District Officer.

Dates: 1886-07 - 1919
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
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Oil from Borneo, 1940 - 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011R/14
Scope and Contents

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'.

Dates: 1940 - 1959
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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On a coffee estate in Sumatra [circa 1900], 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 6/67
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1900
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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On a tobacco estate in Sumatra [circa 1900], 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 6/68
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1900
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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On a tobacco estate in Sumatra [circa 1900], 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 6/69
Scope and Contents

290 x 174 mm. Platinum print. Showing Chinese labourers planting out seedlings in the nursery beds.

Dates: 1900
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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On a tobacco estate in Sumatra [circa 1900], 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 6/70
Scope and Contents

175 x 290 mm. Platinum print. Showing a labourer on a ladder removing the seed pods from a ripe tobacco plant.

Dates: 1900
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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On the Brunei River, 1908-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 18/4231
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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On the Sadong River, 1904 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 12/55
Scope and Contents

Group portrait of Dyaks.

Dates: 1904 - 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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Opening a plantation, Borneo, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302B/50
Scope and Contents

275 x 209 mm. This photograph shows the Tegora Hill Cinnabar Mines and possibly dates from as early as 1867. Photographer unknown.

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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Opening of the Cinnabar mines in Tegora Hill, Upper Sarawak, 1880, 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 6/65
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1880
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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Outside the fermenting shed, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4338
Scope and Contents

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].

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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Pangya Railway station, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4359
Scope and Contents

[Showing thatched building beyond the tracks with jungle in the background and a tree stump in the foreground].

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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Panorama (Paradeplein), Samarang, 1880 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30333A/19
Scope and Contents

167 x 118 mm. General view from across a canal looking towards the Government Offices.

Dates: 1880 - 1899
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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Papers of Dato Klana Maamor bin Kassim, 1927 - 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/2/14
Scope and Contents

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).







Dates: 1927 - 1934
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel 8226C.
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Papua New Guinea, 1965 - 1986

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011WW 3/2 PNG
Scope and Contents

A series of photographs and albums relating to the University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, which was founded in 1965.

Dates: 1965 - 1986
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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Papua New Guinea, 1965 - 1991

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011KKK/257-262
Scope and Contents

A series of photographs of the University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, which was founded in 1965.

Dates: 1965 - 1991
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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Pengalat Cutting, 1909-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 18/4300
Scope and Contents

[Single track railway line through cutting in rock. Man walking along ahead].

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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Pengalat Tunnel from the south, 1909-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 18/4302
Scope and Contents

[Showing single line going down into the tunnel].

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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Perak journal, 1874-04-04 - 1951-02-28

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/1/13/1
Scope and Contents

Swettenham's manuscript journal (80 sheets) with two typescript copies and correspondence relating to its editing for publication.

Dates: 1874-04-04 - 1951-02-28
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel 8224C.