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West Malaysia (division (national))

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:

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Batu Caves [1890s], 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 4/21
Scope and Contents

166 x 214 mm. Showing the entrance to one of the Batu Caves situated about seven miles from Kuala Lumpur.

Dates: 1890 - 1899
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Batu Caves [1890s], 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 4/22
Scope and Contents

165 x 215 mm (mounted on card). Showing the interior of one of the caves, with a group of Malay figures posed for scale in the middle ground.

Dates: 1890 - 1899
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Garden party at the R[esident] G[eneral], Perak, [July 1897], 1897-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 3/46
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...
Dates: 1897-07
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Penang : Beach Street, 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 2/39
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272 x 206 mm. A view looking along Beach Street which runs NE-SW parallel to the waterfront and behind Victoria Street and Weld Quay. In the right foreground a three storey building houses G. Izolphe's hairdressing saloon, the Grand Hotel, the Pilots Club and Abdoul Sanat, watch-makers; these premises were later taken over by Kennedy and Co. Further down the street are the offices of the Pinang Gazette press, which in the left foreground are the Criterion Tiffin and Billiard Rooms.

Dates: 1890 - 1899
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Penang : the jetty, 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 2/37
Scope and Contents

270 x 209 mm. A view looking north-east along the waterfront towards the jetty. With small sailing boats in the foreground.

Dates: 1890 - 1899
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Penang : the jetty, 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 2/38
Scope and Contents

270 x 209 mm.

Dates: 1890 - 1899
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Port Dickson [circa 1900], 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 5/1
Scope and Contents

395 x 283 mm. A view from the sea looking towards the Port Dickson waterfront, with warehouses and commercial premises lining the seafront. Situated 17 miles south-west of Seremban and the principal sea resort of Negri [i.e. Negeri] Sembilan, the town was originally known as Arang-Arang but was renamed Port Dickson in 1889 after Sir John Frederick Dickson (1835-1891) (Colonial Secretary of the Straits Settlements 1885-1891).

Dates: 1900
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Port Dickson, Negri Sembilan, c.1900], 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 5/76
Scope and Contents

270 x 194 mm. A view from a hillside looking down on to the railway station at Port Dickson with the sea beyond.

Dates: 1900
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Port Dickson, Negri Sembilan, c.1900], 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 5/77
Scope and Contents

270 x 194 mm. Duplicate.

Dates: 1900
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Esplanade, Penang, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 2/9
Scope and Contents 280 x 215 mm. A view from the Fort Cornwallis end of the Esplanade looking west across the cricket ground. At the right the Esplanade runs along the seafront, with the bandstand halfway along. On the further side of the cricket ground Esplanade Road runs across the picture from Light Street to the Esplanade just left of centre the old Town Hall is situated between Esplanade Road and Duke Street, with the Penang Cricket Club pavilion to the right and the Municipal Offices to the right...
Dates: 1880 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Inner Roads, Penang, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 2/8
Scope and Contents

270 x 209 mm. A view looking along the Inner Roads, with steamers and numerous smaller sailing vessels at anchor.

Dates: 1880 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The railway line [Port Dickson, circa 1900], 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 5/2
Scope and Contents

360 x 282 mm. A view looking along the line which crosses a causeway before running into the station in the background. The 25 miles line from Seremban to Port Dickson was commenced in 1887 and opened to traffic on July 28, 1891.

Dates: 1900
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Residency Hill, Thaiping [i.e. Taiping] [1890s], 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 3/22
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1890 - 1899
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Residency Hill, Thaiping [i.e. Taiping] [1890s], 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 3/23
Scope and Contents

269 x 207 mm.

Dates: 1890 - 1899
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Strand, Malacca, 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 2/56
Scope and Contents

270 x 209 mm. A view looking along the footbridge crossing the Malacca River near its mouth, with the ruins of St Pauls Church on the hill on the farther bank. The original parts of the church date from the early sixteenth century.

Dates: 1890 - 1899
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Strand, Malacca, 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 2/57
Scope and Contents

270 x 209 mm.

Dates: 1890 - 1899
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Train on Kepong Bank, Selangor [circa 1892], 1892

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 8/2
Scope and Contents

289 x 242 mm. A view from the side of the line looking towards a ballast train halted on an embankment running through dense forest. Kepong is situated six miles north-west of Kuala Lumpur.

Dates: 1892
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Victoria Bridge across Perak River, circa 1899, 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 3/21
Scope and Contents 285 x 210 mm (mounted on card). A view showing the Victoria Bridge, an iron girder construction mounted on stone piles, on the Ipoh-Taiping line and Enggor. The Perak River at this point is over 1000 feet wide and subject to severe flooding; original designs had allowed for a rail level 34 feet above the normal water line, but this was later changed to 40, a valuable decision in the light of the 1926 floods which brought the water level up to the bottom booms of the bridge. Preliminary...
Dates: 1899
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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View of Malacca, 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 2/58
Scope and Contents

270 x 208 mm. A view looking across the bay towards Malay houses on stilts lining the waterfront. With a young Malay boy seated on an English cannon dating from the early nineteenth century in the foreground.

Dates: 1890 - 1899
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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View of Penang Island, looking S.E. from near the Halfway House, Penang Hill, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 2/7
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258 x 280 mm. A view from Penang Hill (also known as Government Hill and situated west of George Town) looking south east across a valley heavily planted with coconut plantations towards another range of hills. Beyond these part of the island of Pulau Jerejak can be seen, with the mainland of Province Wellesley dimly visible in the distance.

Dates: 1880 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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View of the church and steet scene, Thaiping [i.e. Taiping] [1890s], 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 3/24
Scope and Contents

269 x 207 mm. A view looking along a street lined with Chinese traders' stalls, with the spire of the church in the left background. This presumably All Saints Church, consecrated in 1887.

Dates: 1890 - 1899
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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View of the church and steet scene, Thaiping [i.e. Taiping] [1890s], 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 3/25
Scope and Contents

269 x 207 mm.

Dates: 1890 - 1899
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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View of the wharf, Telok Anson [1890s], 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 3/26
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269 x 206 mm. A view looking along the wooden wharves and landing stages at Telok [i.e. Teluk] Anson, with a steamer moored at the right. Telok Anson is situated on the Perak River, 40 miles south of Ipoh and 20 miles from the Strait of Malacca.

Dates: 1890 - 1899
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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View of the wharf, Telok Anson [1890s], 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 3/27
Scope and Contents

269 x 206 mm.

Dates: 1890 - 1899
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).