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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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An album of albumen prints probably taken in the 1880s by varied photographers including Bourne and Shepherd, W L H Skeen and Co. and G.R. Lambert & Co. Numbers 1-39 are of India; 40-51 of Ceylon; and 52-59 of Singapore. Numbers at the end of individual photograph entries refer to the photographers' catalogue numbers.

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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.

Scope and Contents A collection of photographs (various dates, sizes and photographers) and slides with a few leaflets, a file of correspondence, and some title cards as described below. The collection appears to have been assembled chiefly for publicity purposes and there is a file of correspondence requesting photographic and other material. Some of the photographs are mounted on cards for display, but the majority are loose prints stored in folders. There are also a few albums. The main subjects are the...

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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.

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Singapore is a sophisticated communications centre with links to almost all parts of the world. It is a focal point for more than 150 major shipping lines, more than 33 international airlines, with direct telecommunications facilities to 105 countries. Its telephone density of 26 telephones per 100 population is the third highest in East Asia.

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200 x 149 mm. General view of path leading through ornamental gardens.

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141 x 82 mm. Showing the Japanese arch of welcome. Exact location unidentified, but probably Singapore.

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This is the cutting of a newspaper article from the 'Daily Telegraph', 7 Nov. 1942, accompanied by a letter from the Secretary of British Malaya, suggesting that its source, Harry Knight, might be contacted to help identify people who went missing following the Japanese invasion. The file also contains a note about the continued publication of Malayan newspapers under the Japanese (3 sheets).

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143 x 92 mm. Showing Jean Batten (indistinct) seated in the cockpit of her aeroplane, with European spectators in the foreground. Jean Batten (b 1909) made her solo flight from England to New Zealand in 11 days in October 1936.

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265 x 210 mm. A view from the quay side looking over the pier towards the shipping at anchor in the Singapore Roads. Erected around 1854 and named after the merchant Alexander Laurie Johnston, the pier was demolished in 1933 on completion of the Clifford Pier.

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Film negatives of mostly trees and foliage.

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Singapore is a sophisticated communications centre with links to almost all parts of the world. It is a focal point for more than 150 major shipping lines, more than 33 international airlines, with direct telecommunications facilities to 105 countries. Its telephone density of 26 telephones per 100 population is the third highest in East Asia.

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143 x 196 mm. Showing a Chinese man seated in the street on a wooden stool and eating with chopsticks from a bowl.

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A view of Bukit Merah Reservoir.

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A view of Bukit Merah Reservoir.

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140 x 99 mm. View of the Sri Mariaman Temple in South Bridge Road.

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141 x 83 mm. Showing the welcome arch bearing the legend The Sinhalese Welcome their Noble Prince.

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Photographs by various photographers and three other items. They relate to the career of James Alexander Swettenham, who, after serving in Ceylon and Cyprus, became Colonial Secretary in Singapore in 1895. He was Governor of British Guyana 1901-1904 and of Jamaica 1904-1907. His period in Singapore coincided with the service in Malaya of his more famous brother, Sir Frank Swettenham. Their father was James Oldham Swettenham, Solicitor of Belper.