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Monochrome postcards (original photographs) of Malaya - 'Published for the Malayan Governments and produced in Singapore by Houghton Butcher (Eastern) Ltd., 'Camera House' Robinson Road, Singapore'. They were produced for the Malay Pavilion of the British Empire Exhibition of 1924.

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Showing a camp-site of rough thatched huts in a jungle clearing.

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A description of Stark's duties as acting District Officer of Kelang in 1927, submitted for publication in 'Malaya', Aug. 1963, 36-38. The file includes a cutting from its original publication in the 'Straits Times', 9 Nov. 1927.

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View looking across the garden towards a European house (largely obscured by vegetation). A note on the reverse suggests that this might be the house of John Kennaway.

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General view.

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A copy of Nias's account of his wartime service in Malaya. He was involved in demolition work during the retreat to Singapore. After its fall he and a number of comrades escaped in a dinghy and an old yacht, reaching Sumatra, from whence he was evacuated to Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom (6 sheets). Nias’s diary was published in ‘British Malaya’, June 1942, 16-17. The collection is accompanied by a letter from Professor A. L. McLeod to Hugh Bryson.

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220 x 175 mm. Group of fourteen men, mostly in uniform, outside the Kuala Kubu Club after a parade to celebrate the end of the war. It is accompanied by a manuscript account of the episode by Mrs Le Fevre (whose husband is in the group) and letters from A.R. Mynott and H.T. Stiven (also present) completing the identifications of the group, which appears in a typed list on the back of the photograph.

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View looking along a path towards a European figure dressed in a sarong.

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Near Japanese mine started 1933 still going strong 1937.

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Near Japanese mine started 1933 still going strong 1937.

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278 x 243 mm. A view looking along a cutting through dense forest, with excavations and banking along the path of the line. The Rawang Swamp, between Rawang and Serendah and extending 1/2 mile in breadth was the major obstacle to this 4.66 mile section of line which was opened for traffic a year behind schedule in 1893.

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

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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.

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Photographs of the limestone caves and surrounding flora, including two images of four men identified on the reverse (but difficult to read - one man may be called 'Eldel.').

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155 x 103 mm. glossy print with 69 x 46 mm. negative.

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View looking across the wooden bridge.

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103 x 77 mm. As captioned. Photograph by William Langham-Carter.

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View looking along the drive towards a thatched bungalow.

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Showing a group of Chinese miners posed outside their huts.

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Similar to BAM 12/10, but with two European figures seated in the foreground.

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View looking down on a group of sampans in the Klang River at Port Swettenham, Selangor.

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This file contains a letter from Hugh Bryson to Sir Gerald Templer discussing a central element of the Briggs Plan to counter communist insurgents during the Malayan Emergency. Bryson describes how the idea to resettle Chinese squatters in protected areas, known as new villages, initially was conceived and implemented by Malayan civil servants in Selangor and Negri Sembilan. The file also contains Templer's reply (2 sheets).

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View looking across the lawn towards the house of the District Officer, a rambling two-storey building with mock-Tudor timbering.

Scope and Contents 100 x 75 mm. Showing Dr (later Sir) Malcolm WATSON (1873-1955) with a group of Chinese boys. Watson served in the Malayan Medical Service from 1900-1908 and was also in private practice in Malaya from 1900-1928. His first appointment was as District Surgeon, Selangor. His most important work was in the field of malaria research, which he started at Klang in 1901 and he served as a member of the F.M.S. Malaria Board from 1911-1928. He also researched the subject in the Netherlands East...

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Glass negatives of Fraser's Hill in Pahang. Corner visited there on holiday with his sister in July 1937. However, these photographs date back to an earlier visit in 1930.