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208 x 89 mm. View looking along road through parkland.

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208 x 89 mm. General view of town, situated in East Kinta district, Perak.

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137 x 80 mm. Showing an unidentified two storey wooden house with tiled roof at Batu Gojah, the headquarters of the Kinta District of Perak.

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245 x 167 mm. (mounted on card). Showing an unidentified two storey residential house, of stone and with a tiled roof, tentatively identified on the reverse as Batu Gojah, a town in the Kinta district, 67 miles from Taiping and eight miles south of Ipoh. Batu Gojah was the district headquarters of the Kinta division and this photograph, of a fairly imposing residence possibly shows the Collector and Magistrate's house.

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After finding 100 turtle eggs buried in the Sand near Bota.

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80 x 130 mm (mounted on card). Group photograph outside a building with a sign behind the group reading B.M.A.M (next word obliterated by someones head) Food Store. Figures identified include: Sgt COLLINS; A.H. (presumably Amyand Haggard, donor of this photograph); Capt. ATKINSON and RTO. Two names at the top of the photograph are given as KRISHNAN and SAMY.

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99 x 49 mm. As captioned with a Malay house in the foreground.

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55 x 62 mm. As captioned, with four Malays standing on the path in the foreground.

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100 x 130 mm. Mounted photograph showing man, woman and small girl on garden seat. The child's ayah stands behind. Inscribed Xmas 1922. Photographers name on mount, J. Uchida, Taiping, Perak. Inscription on folder 'To Mossy with fondest love and best wishes for Xmas and the New Year. [Illegible] age 14 months.'

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Description of a feast to celebrate the opening of a new rice paddy at the invitation of a Malay chief while Coe was serving as District Officer, Tapah (3 sheets).

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British Resident Perak.

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British Resident Perak.

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British Resident Perak.

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1/20th Riffles and Cecil Elles, Taiping Church.

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105 x 45 mm. Showing the pontoon raft car ferry crossing the Perak River.

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At the box Taiping Hill on honeymoon.

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Coe’s account of climbing a hill near Tapah which according to local legend was haunted (3 sheets).

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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138 x 80 mm. Showing two Chinese fishermen and a boy aboard their vesel. This boat was stopped by Marks to check whether the sailors had valid fishing licences. Photograph possibly by Oliver Marks.

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204 x 147 mm. View looking along excavations, with labourers on the flimsy wooden bridges which criss-cross the workings.

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152 x 111 mm. Showing the carved wooden screen made in 1912 by a convict in the Taiping Jail.

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267 x 209 mm. (mounted on card). Showing a small wooden church with a steeply pitch roof. Exact location unidentified. Photograph probably by A. Kaulfuss.

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243 x 185 mm. (mounted on card). A view showing the Court house and adjacent offices, a mainly two- storey building (with a further storey above the main entrance section) raised on brick piles with a verandah running the length of the first floor, and with a tiled roof. The court house was completed, after various delays, in 1881, and the photograph was likely taken soon after.

Scope and Contents 204 x 151 mm. A view looking down onto a partially constructed stepped culvert on the Taiping-Kuala Kangsar line, with earth works and boulders in the background. A note on the reverse reads: 'There are three culverts in the ravine. The man sitting on the boulder gives an idea of the size of things'. Railway extensions from Taiping eastwards to Kuala Kangsar were contemplated as early as 1888, the Resident Engineer reporting that "while such a line might not prove immediately...

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1. 'The Preventive Service' (18 sheets). A guide describing the responsibilities, duties and administration of the Customs Service for newly appointed officers by C.C. Gutteridge.

2. 'The Preventive Service: North Region' (19 sheets). Report of the activities of the service in the states of Perlis, Kedah, Perak and Pinang from Oct. 1955 to Aug. 1957 by C.C. Gutteridge.