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Malay Archipelago (general region)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 457 Collections and/or Records:

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The port of Cebu, 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30394A/8
Scope and Contents

213 x 170 mm. View looking over the buildings of the town towards the harbour, where sailing vessels are moored. The port is situated on Cebu Island on the Bohol Strait 350 miles south-est of Manila. Founded in 1565 as San Miguel, it was the site of the first permanent Spanish settlement in the Philippines.

Dates: 1890 - 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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The Resident of Kudat, A.C. Pearson, Esq, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4397
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. And his pet Wahah.

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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The River Tji-liwong at Batavia, 1880 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30333A/6
Scope and Contents

275 x 201 mm. View looking along the river (here embanked to form a canal), with a tree-lined avenue running along the left-hand bank.

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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The Sultan's Palace, Brunei [i.e. Bandar Seri Begawan], Borneo, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302B/44
Scope and Contents

272 x 206 mm. Showing a number of thatched houses raised on piles and connected by walkways. Photographer unknown, probably G.R. Lambert and Co.

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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The Tamu before the District Officer has given the signal to begin trading, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4385
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). [D.O. not visible].

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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The train near Kawong, 1909-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 18/4299
Scope and Contents

[Looking back along the train].

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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The University of Papua and New Guinea 1970, 1970

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011WW 3/2 PNG/1
Scope and Contents

An album containing photographs with hand-written captions of buildings and students of the University of Papua New Guinea.

Dates: 1970
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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The wharf, Kuching, 1904 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 12/41
Scope and Contents

View from a boat looking down onto the crowded wharf, with the whitewashed buildings of the gaol in the background.

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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Three brass figures : North Borneo, 1909-01 - 1909-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 20/4566
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format).

Dates: 1909-01 - 1909-02
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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Timber rafts, Sandakan, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4419
Scope and Contents

[Showing rafts along side ship].

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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Timber rafts, Sandakan, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4420
Scope and Contents

[Showing rafts with town across the water].

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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Tobacco drying sheds and coolie houses [historic title], 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4351
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Stream in the foreground and sheds and houses in the distance].

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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Tobacco estate house, Borneo, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302B/49
Scope and Contents

273 x 207 mm. View looking across a clearing towards a group of thatched, verandahed European houses set among palm trees. Photographer unknown, probably G.R. Lambert and Co.

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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Tobacco fields, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 10/23
Scope and Contents

353 x 267 mm. A view looking across undulating, newly-cleared land planted out with rows of tobacco seedlings. A photograph probably taken a short time after the covers, used to protect the seedlings from the sun, had been removed. The plants are ready for harvesting some 80-90 days after the seedlings have been transplanted and after one crop the land was either abandoned or put to other uses for several years before tobacco was planted there again.

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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Tobacco fields, Paya Jambon [? Paya Dajamboe], Lankat, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 10/20
Scope and Contents

352 x 267 mm. A view looking across fields of growing tobacco, with plantation buildings in the distance. This is probably the Paya Dajamboe Estate, in the Selesse District, owned by the Paya Dajamboe Company and managed in 1887 by J. Peachey. Its size in that year was 2, 666 acres.

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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Tour 1935-36, 1935-09 - 1936-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011WWW
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...
Dates: 1935-09 - 1936-01
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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[Transmitting station, Sabah], 1965

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031A/16
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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Transporting cattle by bamboo raft across a river, Central Borneo [Kalimantan Tengah ?], 1960 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302D/12
Scope and Contents

195 x 140 mm. Showing a cow boarding the small bamboo raft.

Dates: 1960 - 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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Trees on [illegible word], Kuala Pilah, 1932-11-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/513
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: 1932-11-07
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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Trees on [illegible word], Kuala Pilah, 1932-11-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/514
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: 1932-11-07
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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Tuanku Abdul Halim and Tuanku Bahiyah visiting Sarawak, 1974

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031B/13
Scope and Contents

206 x 152 mm. As captioned.

Dates: 1974
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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Tuanku Abdul Halim and Tuanku Bahiyah visiting Sarawak, 1974

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031B/14
Scope and Contents

206 x 152 mm. Showing Tuanku Abdul Halim in Field Marshals uniform talking to a dyak group. Tuanku Bahiyah stands behind him.

Dates: 1974
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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Tukalilang in the Penotal Gorge, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4358
Scope and Contents

[Showing bush area beyond river with jungle in the background].

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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Uitkyk (Look-Out), Semarang, 1880 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30333A/23
Scope and Contents

169 x 120 mm. View from the waterfront looking toward the harbour look-out building.

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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Ukiets, Borneo, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302B/48
Scope and Contents

270 x 208 mm. Group portrait of men, women and children seated on a woven mat. In Roth (1896), volume 1, page 25 this photograph is captioned 'Kanowits (?)'. Photographer unknown, probably G.R. Lambert and Co.

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).