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80 x 137 mm. Showing an atap house on the bank of the Perak River, with a small bathing house on stilts extending out into the river itself. A note on the reverse remarks that this bathing hut is similar to the one from which J.W.W. Birch was killed.

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56 x 103 mm. A view looking along an avenue of trees in a plantation.

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Perak M.V.I. Efficiency Cup winners 1930. No V Platoon Tapah,

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Taiping Platoon Guard.

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Football final Taiping Platoon the Winners.

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Battalion Armistice Day 1931 Winners of Champion (Efficiency) Cup 1931. QMS Wam Mohamed.

Scope and Contents An album, with letterpress text, containing 24 captioned prints measuring approximately 150 x 100 mm. These have been numbered in ink 1 to 25, and no. 8 is missing. The captions have been recorded as found and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. The photographs show views in the Straits Settlements, with a number of portraits of Sakai people. Captions supplied by the cataloguer are...

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Contains miscellaneous prints, some by G.R. Lambert and Co., taken from the 1890s. Nos 4 - 15 relate to the Gunong Pondok Pass construction in 1902, 18-20 to the Emergency circa 1949 - 1953 and 21 is a group photograph of the Malayan Railway Board 1952.

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This is a map of the rubber estates in the Krian district measuring 900 x 620 mm. The area shaded in blue pencil traces the Bukit Merah dam, which provided water for all the rice fields in Krian and the estates in the Parit Buntar/Bagan Serai region. The map is undated, but Laurence Connolly, who donated it, and was posted to the Gula Estate in 1949, states that it predates the Second World War. The Bukit Merah dam was constructed in 1906.

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135 x 88 mm. Photograph of W.G. Stewart's daughter.

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194 x 132 mm. A view from the line looking towards a stepped culvert in the Gunong Pondok Pass on the Taiping-Kuala Kangsar line.

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105 x 79 mm. A group portrait of members of the Perak State Council, composed of the Sultan, the British Resident, the Secretary to the Resident and various prominent members of the Malay and Chinese communities. The Sultan, Raja Alang Iskander Shah, is seated in the centre of the group with C.W.C. Parr beside him while the Residents Secretary (unidentified) stands with the Chinese and Malay members in the back row.

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Coe’s account of sport organised in honour of the Sultan Alang Iskandar’s visit to Batang Padang, in which fish drugged with the tuba poison were caught with spears (3 sheets).

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197 x 147 mm. Showing a section of the entrance to the house, with a flight of wooden stairs leading up to the covered verandah on the first floor. M.J. Kennaway is listed in the 1935 edition of the Singapore and Malay Directory as the General Manager of the Slim River Estate of Escot Rubber Estates Ltd. A pencilled note on the reverse of the print states that he was also involved in the production of Lowland tea in Malaya.

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Clayton’s account of how he shot a wild boar which invaded a football pitch during his service as District Officer of Matang in 1900 (2 sheets).

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205 x 157 mm. A view looking along the line towards the cutting.

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A three volume diary kept intermittently during Berkeley's career in the Perak police and as District Officer.

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L-R: Sand Mahomet (jnr clerk), Sayid (very intelligent clerk ), the Collection of Land revenue, Penghula of Jenderak , Abu Baka (clerk) Rasid (clerk famous for his mistakes).

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203 x 146 mm. View looking along the railway line through the pass.

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View looking across the stretch of water towards distant hills.

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197 x 147 mm. Showing the two-storied Parit Post Office surrounded by water.

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197 x 148 mm. Showing a group of Malay youths standing on a flooded bridge in the centre of Parit.

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144 x 92 mm. Showing a flooded street in Parit.

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58 x 103 mm. Showing a flooded section of land, probably near the Perak River.

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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.