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196 x 142 mm. Showing a Chinese fortune teller (? or calligrapher) squatting behind a mat laid out with various texts written in Chinese script.

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75 x 53 mm. Showing P.A.B. McKerron walking along a path, with a military escort.

Scope and Contents 75 x 53 mm. Showing a group of officers gathered for the funeral of Lim Boh Seng. A former student of Raffles Institution and Hong Kong University, Lim Boh Seng had taken such an active part in anti-Japanese activities that the authorities had considered banishing him. At the Governor's request he formed a Chinese liaison committee for civil defence and this committee proved to be the only body capable of recruiting labour during the Japanese bombardment of Singapore. Lim Boh Seng escaped...

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155 x 109 mm. Showing McKerron, Foulger and Regester standing at attention beside the wreaths laid in front of the grave.

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155 x 110 mm. Showing P.A.B. McKerron standing at attention with a group of Chinese Malayans in front of the wreaths laid outside.

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109 x 155 mm. Showing P.A.B. McKerron making the funeral oration on the steps of the Victoria Memorial Hall [?]

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149 x 90 mm. A view looking across the lawn of an unidentified house, with life size models of animals on the grass.

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Includes material on the IUC as a whole together with a few items on British Universities.

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132 x 81 mm. A view looking along the driveway towards the hospital buildings (possibly the Outram General Hospital, opened in 1926).

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Prints measuring approximately 205 x 140 mm with typewritten captions pasted to the reverse.

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A collection of loose prints, mostly measuring approximately 190 x 140 mm, with typewritten captions pasted to the reverse. The collection contains general views of landscape and architecture in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Brunei and Borneo.

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275 x 207 mm.

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275 x 207 mm. A general view of Government House. Photograph probably by G.R. Lambert and Co.

Scope and Contents 293 x 245 mm. A view looking up from one of the driveways in the garden towards Government House. Singapore's first gubernatorial residence had been the house build by Raffles on the summit of what was to become Fort Canning and for a period after the building of the Fort, the Governor lived in rented accommodation in the town ( Buckley, p. 675). As with St Andrews Cathedral, Government House was erected under the supervision of J.F.A. McNair, using largely convict labour, and was ready...

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Cox's account discusses the sourcing, manufacture, packaging, retailing, consumption and regulation of opium in Singapore. The file also includes a letter to the British Association of Malaya (5 sheets).

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147 x 122 mm. Showing a group of officials seated round a table. The figures are identified as: Walker (Secretary); (Sir) Alexander Theodore NEWBOULT (1896-1974), Chief Secretary, Malayan Union 1946-1950; Sir Gerald [i.e. Gerard] Edward James GENT (1895-1948), Governor, Malayan Union 1946-1948; Hugh Patterson BRYSON (1898-1977), Assistant Secretary, Singapore 1956-1949; J.S. DUMERESQUE, Head of Broadcasting; Sir Franklin GIMSON (1890-1975), Governor of Singapore 1946-1952.

Scope and Contents 197 x 113 mm. (mounted on card). A modern copy of a print taken on the verandah of Government House. The figures in the group are identified as follows: Captain Lord Charles SCOTT (1839-1911), Commander of the Bacchante; (later Sir) William Edward MAXWELL (1846-1897), Acting Resident at Perak; Captain Henry Stopford TUNNARD, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, A.D.C. to Sir Frederick Weld 1881-1883; Sir Frederick Aloysius WELD (1823-1891), Governor of the Straits Settlements 1880-1887; Prince...

Scope and Contents 235 x 285 mm. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Harry Keppel (1809-1904) had long and distinguished service in the royal Navy; from 1843-1844 he was Senior Officer in the Straits of Malacca and cooperated with Sir James Brooke in the supression of Borneo piracy. He paid two visits to Singapore in old age, spending the winters of 1899-1900 and 1901-1902 there. It is likely that this phtoograph dates from the former visit since Sir Alexander Swettenham was Acting Governor of the Straits Settlements...

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135 x 215 mm. Arthur Abercromby Scott-Duff (1874-1951) was A.D.C. to the Governor of Singapore 1898-1899. He appears to have been a friend of the Swettenham family as he appears in the group mentioned in Y3031C/13. In 1914 he served with the Gordon Highlanders in France but in December was appointed A.D.C. to the Duke of Connaught, Governor-General of Canada.

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98 x 148 mm. Showing a Malay man standing beside the tree. On reverse of print: This tree produces an undesirable rubber. The tree was destroyed on orders by Mr I.H. Burkill, Director of Gardens, Singapore, sometime after 1918, when this photograph was taken.

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276 x 208 mm. A view looking south along South Bridge Road from the corner of Mosque Street, with the twin towers of the Jamae Mosque (built by Chulia Muslims between 1830-55) at the right and the entrance gateway of the Sri Mariammam Temple (built 1827-43) beyond.

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207 x 27 mm. Showing the gopuran (entrance gate-tower) of the Sri Mariamman Temple on South Bridge Road, built between 1827 and 1843.

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260 x 208 mm.

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269 x 204 mm.