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200 x 146 mm (mounted on card). A group photograph. Identified in the group are: E.W. ANCUTT, no information; Tuanku MOHAMED; Hugh Patterson BRYSON, British Adviser, Negri [i.e. Negeri] Sembilan; MOHAMED SALLEH bin Haji Sulaiman (1904-); M.S.C. 1920-1957; Ernest Edgar PENGILLY (1897); M.C.S. 1921-1952; H.S. BROWN, Manager, Ainsdale Estate, Seremban in 1935; A.J. (Tony ROZARIO), no information.

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A description of the duties and responsibilities of a district officer, much of it relating to the Malayan Emergency (35 sheets).

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A brief note on Austin 'Beano' Robins, who worked as Assistant Manager on Perhentian Tinggi Estate (1 sheet).

Scope and Contents 134 x 87 mm. Showing officers on parade with civilian spectators in the background. The identified figures in the group are: Ewald Egerton Herbert BECK (1894-1976); Police Probationer, F.M.S. (Federated Malay States), 1914; Chief Police Officer, Negri Sembilan 1932; Frank Leonard HARDING (1894-); Surveyor-on-Agreement, F.M.S. and Straits Settlements 1924; Town Planning Superintendent, Negri Sembilan 1930-1934 (retired); CORKE (no information); DRYSDALE; (no information); Tunku ZAKARIAH;...

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80 x 129 mm. Showing H. P. Bryson posing for his photograph with a Malay policeman standing at attention in the back ground.

Scope and Contents 162 x 90 mm. A formal group portrait of the officials present at the 1932 durbar held at Sri Menanti, palace of the Yang di-Petuan Besar at Seremban. The figures in the group are: [?] Al-Mutasim Billah al-Sultan ABDULLAH (d 1932); Sultan of Pahang circa 1918-1932. Brysons caption identified this figure as Sultan Ahmad, but this is surely incorrect: Sultan Ahmad (circa 1881-1938) had ruled Pahang since 1865. On his death in 1914 his son Mahmad succeeded him and he in turn was succeeded...

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95 x 141 mm. A view looking seawards, with a beached rowing boat and palm tree in the foreground, at Pasir Panjang in Negri Sembilan twenty miles south of Seremban.

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The caption continues (only half of which is legible): 'Tree with stiff roots, with G.A.C.H. The man seated amongst the roots is identified as both 'E.T.H.C' and 'G.A.C.H.'

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Showing a soldier running along a track, through thick jungle. A note on the reverse in Brysons hands reads: A posed picture taken on the edge of jungle, but it does give a good idea of how thick growth may be.

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Glass and film negatives. The label lists at least four other places, which are illegible. Numbers 521-524 and 526 have camera specifications written in pencil underneath the captions.

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Glass and film negatives. The label lists at least four other places, which are illegible. Numbers 521-524 and 526 have camera specifications written in pencil underneath the captions.

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199 x 150 mm. A view looking across gardens, presumably at the Istana at Sri Menanti, showing a Malay crowd gathering around the decorated carriage in which Tuanku Abdul Rahman and his consort are seated on the way to the Menghadap or three yearly audience.

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197 x 148 mm. Showing the male dancers in the performance also seen in the preceding print. Tuanku Abdul Rahman (1895-1960), who succeeded Tuanku Muhammed as Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negri Sembilan in 1933 can be seen at the left of the central group of spectators.

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197 x 148 mm. Showing two female dancers performing in an enclosed courtyard at Sri Menanti, the astana of the Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negri Sembilan. With spectators in the background.

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43 x 58 mm. A view looking across the landing strip towards atap houses, with jungle in the back ground.

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58 x 43 mm. A view looking across a parade ground towards wooden buildings.

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Showing the damage done to leaves by insects.

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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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79 x 129 mm. Showing L. I. Lewis, Senior Inspector of the Kampong Home Guard, crossing a tree trunk bridge. With other members of the patrol in the background.

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Drafts for a paper written by Gullick on the history of Sungei Ujohn, accompanied by correspondence related to research enquiries (100 sheets).

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A view from the garden looking towards the small, tile roofed bungalow.

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158 x 207 mm. Showing the steps leading up to the ornately carved wooden façade of a Malay house.

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Album of photographs all 97 x 71 mm, presumably taken by E.B. Maundrell with the inscription on the first page S.E.M. from E.B.M. with best wishes Christmas, 1906. Port Dickson F.M.S. 5.12.06. A list of subjects is on the back page. These include: photographs of Port Dickson domestic dwellings and other buildings, whale boats, tree ferns and vegetation.

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Glass and film negatives. The label lists at least four other places, which are illegible. Numbers 521-524 and 526 have camera specifications written in pencil underneath the captions.

Scope and Contents 153 x 108 mm. Showing guests seated round a luncheon table in the garden of Datu Rembaus house. Figures identified in the group are: A.W.D. JAMES, no information; Mrs JAMES; Mrs HARRISON, no information; Dato' KLANA PETRA, ruling chief at Sungei Ujong; Mohamed SALLEH bin Haji Sulaiman (1904-), M.C.S. 1920-1957; A.J. GABBUTT, no information; L.I. LEWIS, Senior Inspector, Kampong Home Guard; Wife of Mohamed SALLEH; Hugh Patterson BRYSON; Wife of Data KLANA; Tuanku MOHAMED, no...