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202 x 152 mm. A side view of the viaduct seen in the preceding print, with the mouth of No. 4 Tunnel in the left background.

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Manuscript diary written by Thomas Taylor Russell, Deputy Public Prosecutor in Perak, Malaya, captured in Singapore in early 1942 and interned as a civilian at Changi and Sime Road; a privately printed transcription reproducing Russell's diary; a typescript copy of the Double Tenth investigation and other publications from 1945 relating to Changi.

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Reflections upon notable district officers Churchill encountered during his career, identified by annotation as C.F. Bozzolo and Hubert Berkeley, accompanied by a pen and ink sketch (2 copies, 26 sheets).

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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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An account of the capture and taming of wild elephants observed by Clayton when he was District Officer of Telok Anson (3 copies, 12 sheets).

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150 x 113 mm.

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

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276 x 218 mm. Group photograph of Malay school children and teachers posed in front of school buildings. A notice on the blackboard placed at the centre of the group reads: '24.5.25 Empire Day P. Baharu Dindings'.

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207 x 90 mm. Showing a pontoon bridge across the Perak River at Enggor.

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296 x 91 mm. View of the Victoria Railway Bridge over the Perak River at Enggor.

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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 154 x 105 mm. A group photograph showing Siamese, and Malysian and Indian police, and British officials grouped round the flagpole at Klian Intan after the ceremony by which Siam ceded responsibility for the territory to the British. In front of the police force of the two powers stand (from left to right): Siamese police inspector; Inspector SIMPSON, Perak Police; J.D. KEMP: Manager of the Rahman Tin Co.; Hubert BERKELEY (1864-1942); M.S.C. 1886-1926; District Officer, Upper Perak...

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An account of a legal case heard by Clayton during 1904 or 1905 concerning the failure to pay a debt, in which the defendant’s claim to have repaid the money was supported by eleven false witnesses. Clayton exposed their perjury by clever interrogation (2 sheets).

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Coe’s account of witnessing Chinese fire-walkers north of Taiping in 1927.

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138 x 79 mm. Showing boats moored beside waterside houses raised on stilts at Pasir Itam. Photograph possibly by Oliver Marks.

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102 x 58 mm. A view looking down onto the flooded bank of the Perak River, with a small houseboat moored in the foreground.

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144 x 92 mm. A view looking along the flooded main street, with a group of Malays and Chinese standing knee-deep in water in the foreground.

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145 x 92 mm. Showing Malays and Chinese standing knee-deep in floodwater in a street in Parit.

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138 x 79 mm. Showing the steamer Flying Dragon approaching a wharf at Port Weld. Marks (1926) provides the following description: 'Alongside the wharf lay the Flying Dragon, a small coasting vessel, which has run between Penang and Perak for the last forty years: carrying pigs, ducks, blachan, durians, dried fish and unwashed native passengers, and also perhaps more smells per ton than any vessel of her size.'

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Showing three French tin miners posed on the steps leading to the verandah of a house at Kinta.

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206 x 152 mm. Showing Tuanku Abdul Halim greeting guests at a garden party at Ipoh. Tuanku Bahiyah stands behind him.

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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Sultan Idris Training College Gardens.

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Showing Gordon Eastley Greig (b 1879) reclining in a wickerwork lounger on the verandah of a house. Greig was appointed Inspector of Mines, Perak in 1902.

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150 x 200 mm. A view from the line looking up the masonry culvert.