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West Malaysia (division (national))

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1012 Collections and/or Records:

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Malays: Hassau, Ibrahim, Mat, Subo at Mat's house, Danau, S. Sedili [i.e. Sungai Sedili?], 1932

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/644
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Glass and film negatives

Dates: 1932
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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Malays: Hassau, Ibrahim, Mat, Subo at old Hassau's house, Danau, S. Sedili [i.e. Sungai Sedili?], 1932

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/643
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Glass and film negatives

Dates: 1932
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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Margaret Jean Stewart aged 8½ months, 1925-07-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031D/3
Scope and Contents

135 x 88 mm. Photograph of W.G. Stewart's daughter.

Dates: 1925-07-09
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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Market scene, [?] P. Datoh, 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 14/4
Scope and Contents

130 x 79 mm. Showing a riverside market scene, with men and women gathered round the canoes moored on the bank.

Dates: 1914
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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Market scene, [?] Pasir Datoh, 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 14/6
Scope and Contents

130 x 79 mm. A similar view to BAM 14/4, taken at the same location and on the same day, but showing more of the crowd of Malays gathered for the market.

Dates: 1914
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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Masonry Culvert 315, Bank No. 13. Maximum height on centre line 35 feet [circa 1902], 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 8/5
Scope and Contents

194 x 132 mm. A view from the line looking towards a stepped culvert in the Gunong Pondok Pass on the Taiping-Kuala Kangsar line.

Dates: 1902
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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Meeting of Perak State Council at Ipoh, 12th Dec. 1925, 1925-12-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 3/50
Scope and Contents

105 x 79 mm. A group portrait of members of the Perak State Council, composed of the Sultan, the British Resident, the Secretary to the Resident and various prominent members of the Malay and Chinese communities. The Sultan, Raja Alang Iskander Shah, is seated in the centre of the group with C.W.C. Parr beside him while the Residents Secretary (unidentified) stands with the Chinese and Malay members in the back row.

Dates: 1925-12-12
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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Meeting of visiting officials, Seremban, 1950, 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 5/29
Scope and Contents 115 x 87 mm. Showing the visiting British delegation which visited Malaya in mid-1950 to discuss the Emergency, seated round a table with various Malayan officials. Identified in the print are: Datu ABDUL MALEK, Chief Minister, Negri Sembilan; Hugh Patterson, British Adviser; John Noel Douglas HARRISON (1911-), Chief Police Officer; Rt. Hon. James GRIFFITHS (1890-1975), Secretary of State for the Colonies 1950-1951; Sir Henry Lovell Goldsworthy GURNEY (1898-1951), High Commissioner,...
Dates: 1950
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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Memorial to Captain Light, Penang, 1930 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 2/53
Scope and Contents 62 x 88 mm. Showing the statue of Captain Francis Light (1740-1794), founder of Prince of Wales Island (Penang) in 1786. Light died of malaria on the island and was buried in the old Protestant Cemetery in Northam Road, George Town. The bronze statue designed by Frederick J. Wilcoxson, was originally sited in Fort Cornwallis and was unveiled in 1939. It was removed during the Japanese occupation and re-erected in 1946 in front of the High Court in Light Street. The only known...
Dates: 1930 - 1939
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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Menghadap at Sri Menanti, Negri Sembilan, 1934, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 5/16
Scope and Contents 197 x 148 mm. Showing Tuanku Abdul Rahman and his consort Tunku Ampuan Kursiah seated on the decorated dais in the audience hall for the Menghadap. The triennal menghadap was inaugurated at Sri Menanti in 1901 and on these occasions the ruling chiefs paid homage to the Yang di-Pertuan Besar in front of members of the royal family and government officials. Sheppard (1965) states that Abdul Rahman held his first menghadap in 1937, but the presence of Caldecott and London in the following...
Dates: 1934
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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Mersing road, 1931 - 1933

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/613
Scope and Contents

Showing a straight, tree lined road.

Dates: 1931 - 1933
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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Military police inspecting identity cards, 1920 - 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 5/50
Scope and Contents

85 x 55 mm. Original.

Dates: 1920 - 1949
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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Military police inspecting identity cards, 1920 - 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 5/51
Scope and Contents

85 x 55 mm. Original.

Dates: 1920 - 1949
Conditions Governing Access: Missing June 2007.
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Mixed racial group, Penang, 1880s, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 2/42
Scope and Contents

227 x 191 mm. Studio portrait.

Dates: 1880 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access: Missing from box, June 2007.
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M.J. Kennaway's house, Escot Estate, Tanjong Malin [i.e. Tanjung Malim ?], about 1930, 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 3/36
Scope and Contents

197 x 147 mm. Showing a section of the entrance to the house, with a flight of wooden stairs leading up to the covered verandah on the first floor. M.J. Kennaway is listed in the 1935 edition of the Singapore and Malay Directory as the General Manager of the Slim River Estate of Escot Rubber Estates Ltd. A pencilled note on the reverse of the print states that he was also involved in the production of Lowland tea in Malaya.

Dates: 1930
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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[MM’s visit to open an art exhibition at Bhatu Pahat [i.e. Batu Pahat] on 21 July 1950], 1950-07-21

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/MM 16
Scope and Contents

Loose prints.

Dates: 1950-07-21
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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Modern and miscellaneous prints, 1950 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 18
Scope and Contents

Contains loose prints from the 1950s and 1960s, supplementing the main historical collection. The main subjects are 44-57, 63-70 Indigenous peoples; 93-109 ceremonies (including Merdeka, 1957, 96-98); 110-121 Gurkhas; 122-139 Sarawak; 140-179 Singapore (including official visits and formal occasions).

Dates: 1950 - 1969
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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Morib, Selangor, 1904 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 12/140
Scope and Contents

View from a more oblique angle of the bungalow.

Dates: 1904 - 1910
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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Mosque, Kuala Trengganu, 1927 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 16/24
Scope and Contents

99 x 57 mm. A view looking across gardens towards the mosque, a substantial building with ornate, domed towers at each corner.

Dates: 1927 - 1929
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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Mosque, Kuala Trengganu [i.e. Terengganu], 1927 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 16/34
Scope and Contents

98 x 58 mm. A view from the street showing part of the mosque.

Dates: 1927 - 1929
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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Mossy jungle. Jungle at 5000 [feet], G[unong] Ulu Kali, ? Mat, Selangor, 1904 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 12/96
Scope and Contents

View of jungle undergrowth, with a Malay youth seated in the foreground.

Dates: 1904 - 1910
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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Moving a house, Alor Star, Kedah, March 1937, 1937-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 6/39
Scope and Contents

106 x 62 mm. Showing a large Malay crowd carrying a complete house, shoulder high to a new location.

Dates: 1937-03
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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Mowai to Mersing road, Johore [i.e. Johor], 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/660
Scope and Contents

The caption continues 'Edge of the forest, wood (illegible words), S. Dohol.'

Dates: 1931
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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[Mrs Nora Kitching], 1920 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 16/71
Scope and Contents

52 x 54 mm. Showing Mrs Kitching standing on the tennis court.

Dates: 1920 - 1939
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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Mrs V., J.B.S., Batu Caves, Selangor, 1904 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 12/112
Scope and Contents

Showing J.B. Scrivenor and Mrs V. (no further information) exchanging a joke at the mouth of the Batu Caves.

Dates: 1904 - 1910
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).