Scope and Contents 251 x 198 mm. Showing Frank SWETTENHAM, Captain SPEEDY, Raja Indut and Raja Abdulrahman standing with a group of Sepoys and Malays outside Che Mudas house. The photograph was taken during the military occupation of Perak by Major McNair. McNair (1878, p. 168-169) gives this description: 'The residence of the Princess of Perak at Quella Kungsa gives - as will be seen in the illustration, from a photograph taken by the author during the Governors progress - a very full idea of a Malay noble...

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Churchill's account of working during 1923-1924 as an Assistant to the District Officer of Kuala Kangsar, identified as R. Crichton in an annotation (2 manuscript and 3 typescript copies, 24 sheets).

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116 x 81 mm. Showing three elephants with their keepers.

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217 x 185 mm (mounted on card). Showing the European group seen in the preceding two prints, posed for the photographer beside a river.

Scope and Contents 357 x 272 mm. A group portrait of British and Malay dignitaries gathered in the garden of the Residency at Kuala Kangsar during the Federal Conference of 1897. With three elephants at the right of the print. At the start of the meeting a telegram telegram of loyalty from the Sultans to Queen Victoria was sent and in the following days various matters relating to federation were discussed. Figures so far identified in the print are: Sir Hugh CLIFFORD (1866-1941), seated on middle...

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124 x 93 mm. A view looking across the river (with boats in the foreground) towards Government House.

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201 x 147 mm. A group photograph probably taken after a tennis tournament, with a row of cups on a small table in front of the group. Only five of the 20 figures are identified: Shaid Syed ALI; Hugh Patterson BRYSON; Mrs I.C. BRYSON; Mrs BAIN; Norman Kerr BAIN (b 1883), Malayan Civil Service 1906-1934.

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207 x 92 mm. General view from road.

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204 x 106 mm.

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205 x 115 mm.

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205 x 96 mm. View from the Perak River.

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80 x 130 mm (mounted on card). Group photograph showing children sitting outside a two storey building. Two adults stand at either side of the group.

Scope and Contents 137 x 80 mm. Showing the colonnaded and porticoed façade of the Malay Residential School at Kuala Kangsar, completed in 1908. The idea of a school, run on the lines of an English public school, was conceived by the Resident General Sir William Treacher and the Federal Inspector of Schools R.D. Wilkinson in 1904. The school was run as an experiment for three years under the headmastership of W. Hargreaves and at the end of that period the High Commissioner sanctioned the building of a...

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204 x 154 mm (mounted on card). Showing a group of men and women seated on three elephants, probably at Kuala Kangsar. No identifications.

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196 x 142 mm (mounted on card).

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Contains loose photographs by various photographers including G.R. Lambert and Co., A Kaulfuss and Leonard Wray. This material includes prints from Sir Frank Swettenham's collection, and is of particular historical importance. Some items from the Langham-Carter collection have been included.

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A description of Coe’s service as 2nd Assistant District Officer in charge of the sub-treasury and court, and of the District Officer H.B. Ellerton.

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111 x 153 mm. Showing Sir Abdul Aziz AlMuktassim BILLAH SHAH (1887-1948), Sultan of Perak 1938-1948, seated beside his wife at an unidentified outdoor function at Kuala Kangsar.

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190 x 257 mm (mounted on card). A group photograph showing the staff of the Civil Affairs Office. Identifications are made mostly by means of initials written in ink on the card underneath the photograph: HI; RANLY; CC; DADO; HAMARUDIN; de SILVA; A.H. (presumably Amyand Haggard, donor of this photograph); CATCHPOLE; AFC; DO; RAO, Treasurer; CC; PWD.

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200 x 150 mm (mounted on card). A group photograph with identifications as follows: Notice Server; ACHAVIAM, FERNANDO; GAN; PEON; Inspector WONG; Wan HAMARUDIN; the Presiding Officer; the CAO; MANHENDRAN (Ipoh lawyer); Ditt SINGH.