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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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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.

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78 x 54 mm. Showing a horse gharry parked on the Singapore waterfront.

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143 x 196 mm. Showing a Chinese priest standing beside a metal (? incense) bowl.

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River scene with a settlement and wooded hills in the distance. Precise location unidentified, but possibly showing Keppel or New Harbour.

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54 x 79 mm. Showing a young Indian man and woman seated beneath the decorated canopy seen in the preceding two prints. The occasion appears to be a marriage ceremony.

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152 x 100mm. A view looking along South Bridge Road, with the gopuram of the Sri Mariamman Temple in the foreground.

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90 x 149 mm. A view looking across a room towards a wall crowded with images of Buddha, with two rows of low seats in the foreground.

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120 x 80 mm. A view looking along the aisle of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Singapore's Roman Catholic Cathedral, built between 1843 and 1846.