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Negeri Sembilan (state)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 138 Collections and/or Records:

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3rd (Negri Sembilan) Battalion, Federated Malay States Volunteer Force, Remembrance Sunday 1950, 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 5/28
Scope and Contents

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.

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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'A few memories of two and a half years as district officer', 1965

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/3/14
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1965
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
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'A well known character in Negri Sembilan', 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/9/4
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1963
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel MC 47.
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At a birthday parade, Seremban, 1931 or 1932, 1931 - 1932

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 5/12
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;...
Dates: 1931 - 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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At police guard post at top of pass on road from Seremban to Kuala Pilah, 1950, 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 5/71
Scope and Contents

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

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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At Sri Menanti, Negri Sembilan, Durbar 1932, 1932

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 16/87
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...
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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Beach scene, Pasir Panjang, S. S, 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 15/12
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1924
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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Big tree, with E.T.H.C, G. Angsi [i.e. Gunung Angsi], 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/483
Scope and Contents

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.'

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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British soldier moving into position for patrol in jungle, Negri Sembilan, 1950, 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 5/73
Scope and Contents

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.

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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Canopy of forest, Bukit Senaling, Negeri Sembilan, 1930-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/499
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: 1930-06
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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Canopy of forest, Bukit Senaling, Negeri Sembilan, 1930-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/498
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: 1930-06
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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Ceremonial carriage taking H.H. Yang di-Pertuan Besar Tuanku Abdul Rahman to the lustration on the occasion of the 3 yearly audiences : drawn by men chosen from surrounding villages, 1934, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 5/15
Scope and Contents

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.

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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Ceremonial traditional court dancers at Sri Menanti, Negri [i.e. Negeri] Sembilan, 1932

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 16/114
Scope and Contents

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.

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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Ceremonial traditional court dancers at Sri Menanti, Negri [i.e. Negeri] Sembilan, 1932, 1932

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 16/113
Scope and Contents

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.

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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Chimpedak, Jelebu, on road to Titi. View from Auster landing strip [1949], 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 5/40
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 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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Chimpedak, Jelebu. Post on top of the hill [1949], 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 5/41
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 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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Conocephalus ?amoeuus, G. Angsi [i.e. Gunung Angsi], 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/496
Scope and Contents

Showing the damage done to leaves by insects.

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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Correspondence on new villages, 1963-11-28 - 1963-12-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/15/12
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: 1963-11-28 - 1963-12-02
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this item must be viewed on Master Microfilm Reel 8239.
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Crossing tree trunk bridge on way to Poom near Negri Sembilan-Pahang border, 1949, 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 5/33
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 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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Custom and constitution of Sungei Ujong, 1947-11-24 - 1948-04-26

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/7/5
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1947-11-24 - 1948-04-26
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
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District Officers' quarters, Port Dickson, 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 11/6
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1906
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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Door of carved Malay house, Seremban [circa 1920s], 1920 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 5/3
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1920 - 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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E.B. Maundrell collection 1906, 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 11
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1906
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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Edge of the forest, G. Angsi [i.e. Gunung Angsi], Negeri Sembilan, 1930-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/497
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: 1930-06
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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Farewell to H.P. Bryson at Datu Rembaus, Negri Sembilan 1950, 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 5/30
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...
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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