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Similar to preceding print, but with fewer people in the foreground.

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82 x 133 mm. Showing an unidentified European woman sitting on one of the steps of the path leading up the hill.

Scope and Contents 251 x 173 mm. Showing soldiers of the Perak Sikhs grouped on the parade ground at Taiping. In the centre of the group stands the detachment of men trained as gunners with their 9 pounder field guns; these were introduced into the force in 1880. The Perak Sikhs were formed under the command of Captain Paul Swinburne in 1876 from the body of 200 men who had been brought into Perak by Captain Speedy before the State came under British protection. In later years numbers were replenished by...

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241 x 190 mm. (mounted on card). A view looking over the valley (largely hidden by low lying cloud), with densely wooded hillside in the foreground.

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269 x 207 mm. A view looking over the town from a neighbouring hillside, with tin workings in the foreground, the houses of the town beyond and the Residency situated on a small hill overlooking the Padang.

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269 x 207 mm.

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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.

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Extracted from the ‘Changi Guardian’, no. 27, 10 Apr. 1942 (3 pages).

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An account by Clayton of the capture of animals and reptiles in Perak for sale to zoos in 1906 (2 sheets).

Scope and Contents Album of photographs with a note inside the front cover 'Almost all the photographs in this album were taken by the late Thomas Kitching, Chief Surveyor, in Malaya: the Trengganu [i.e. Terengganu] groups particularly. H.P. Bryson. 3 March 1974'. From the pencilled numbering it originally contained 160 prints, but 44 have been removed, and the remainder renumbered. Most have captions and these have been recorded as found. A summary of the subjects is: 1-19 Perak circa 1926; 20-63 Trengganu...

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300 x 100 mm. panoramic view of a mine similar to Boo Bee’s Chinese worked mine, Kamunting, Perak.

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205 x 90 mm.

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270 x 211 mm. (mounted on card). Showing a European manager standing with a Chinese foreman and labourers at the edge of the mine workings. At the left of the print labourers can be seen at work on the sluices. Photograph probably by Augustus E. Kaulfuss.

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206 x 143 mm. General view of plant at Tronoh, situated in central Perak, 14 miles south - west of Ipoh.

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205 x 137 mm. General view of open cast mine workings with Indian labourers. Tambun is just situated just east of Ipoh.

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206 x 142 mm. General view of mine workings.

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275 x 211 mm. (mounted on card) A view looking along deep open cast tin workings at Taiping, with groups of Chinese labourers posing for the camera. Photograph probably by Augustus [sic] E. Kaulfuss.

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Description of a six day journey by foot to a frontier region of Coe’s jurisdiction as District Officer, Tapah (3 sheets).

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L-R: Seng Seang, Chin Sen Boo, Kim Kok Hung, R P Bingham (Asst Protector of Chinese) Sheppard, ASR Oui Choo Teik Pres.

Scope and Contents 246 x 188 mm (mounted on card). A view looking between palm trees towards the Treasury, a whitewashed stone building with tiled roof. This does not correspond with the description of Isabella Bird which describes the building in 1879 as a substantial dark wood building (Bird, 1883, p. 280) and therefore presumably is the new Treasury and Audit Offices offices, built 1884-1885 at a cost of $10, 000 (See Further correspondence respecting the Protected Malay States (c. 4958 of 1887, p....

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As captioned. Grik is situated 45 miles north-east of Taiping in northern Perak.

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136 x 79 mm. Showing Alwyn Sidney HAYNES and the Raja Bendahara (probably Raja Yusuf) tuba fishing from a river bank.

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149 x 112 mm. A view looking out over the Perak River showing men in canoees with nets. The sap of the root of the creeping plant tuba (dalbergia) is extracted by maceration in water and this, when thrown into the river brings the fish to the surface for netting.

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Humorous story of a visit to a rubber estate and experimental cinchona plantation on Hermitage Hill, one of the outlying hills of the main Perak mountain range, sometime between 1901 and 1908 (2 sheets).

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197 x 148 mm. An interior view, presumably in the house of M.J. Kennaway, showing a bedroom with dressing table, writing desk and wash-stand.