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Showing the Chinese Station Master standing in a white uniform on the platform, with a train in the background.

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154 x 113 mm. View looking along a commercial street lined with Chinese shops, with an avenue of trees running along the centre of the road. Location unidentified, possibly Taiping.

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The main street T. Malim. This was 5 ft. deep in water on the 14th June 1930.

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79 x 136 mm. Showing Alwyn Sidney Haynes (1878-1963), an attendant holding an umbrella and the Sultan of Perak, Sir Iskander Shah. The Malay Volunteer Infantry are not visible in the print.

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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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271 x 211 mm. (mounted on card). A view looking along a street lined with wooden houses with atap thatching. Photograph stamped A. Kaulfuss, Penang.

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286 x 113 mm. Panoramic view from neighbouring hills.

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Group of people by swimming pool.

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Taken after I went on leave. The new Perak State Council Feb 1932.

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The secretary to the Residents Hill (Formally Residency) . The public football ground in foreground.

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Asst S R's House Swettenhams Rd.

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An old State Council Meeting

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H.R Jarrett Sec. to Resident Perak.

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245 x 191 mm. (mounted on card). A view looking out over Taiping, with the Padang and the Perak Club in the foreground, founded in 1881, and the barracks of the Perak Armed Police beyond. The barracks of the Perak Armed Police in Taiping were built in 1881-1882. This print forms the right hand of a panorama when joined to the preceding photograph.

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242 x 188 mm. A view looking down from the Residency Hill over the town of Taiping, with jungle in the distance. The photograph possibly shows the area to the right of that seen in the preceding prints although the photographs do not match up exactly.

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242 x 169 mm. A view looking over part of the prison stockade towards wooded hills in the direction of Kamunting, two miles north-north-west of Taiping. In the foreground are a number of atap houses, with the brick wall of the prison beyond and a wooded palisade enclosing some of the prison buildings. The unsatisfactory state of the prison is described in the Perak Annual Report for 1884 (enclosed in Further correspondence respecting the Protected Malay States (C. 4958 of 1887, p. 23).

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272 x 213 mm (mounted on card). A view looking along a tree-lined street with substantial stone houses of Chinese residents on either side. Third Street runs off to the left in the foreground. Photograph stamped A. Kaulfuss, Penang.

Scope and Contents A view looking down from Residency Hill over a section of Taiping, with the Padang in the foreground, houses and shops beyond and hills in the distance. The photograph when compared with the preceding print, gives some indication of the prosperity brought to the town by the tin mining industry during the early years of British administration: apart from the grouth of the town, the buildings themselves are of a more substantial appearance, mostly of two storeys and roofed with corrugated...

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Secretariat.

Scope and Contents 246 x 168 mm. A view looking down the Residency Hill along rows of Chinese houses with atap roofs, with scrubland beyond and jungle in the distance. A note on the reverse of the print indicates that the houses are probably those running along Main Street. By the end of 1874 Taiping had a population of around 5000. The views of Swettenham, who visited the town in the same year are recorded in (eds Burns and Cowan 1975) and Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol...

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207 x 105 mm. View looking out over the ornamental lakes and garden, laid out in the mid 1890s.

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144 x 93 mm. A view looking across the ornamental lakes and gardens at Taiping.

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286 x 95 mm. General view of main façade.

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195 x 148 mm. An informal group photograph taken at the meeting with the Sultan of Perak, Raja Sir Alang Iskandar Shah and the British Resident C.W.C. PARR seated in the centre. Gathered around them are: George Alexander de Chazal de MOUBRAY (1888-1977), Malay Civil Service 1912-1945; H.P. BRYSON; J. Murray ROSS, Assistant Simpang Estate, Matang; Reginald CRICHTON (1877-), Malayan Civil Service 1900-circa 1927; T. (?) WELSH, A.D.C. to Sultan.

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155 x 201 mm. A view looking along the line which runs through a steep cutting, towards Gunong Pondok mountain on the horizon.