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General view of the dispensary building from the driveway, with rickshaw drivers in the foreground.

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263 x 207 mm. View looking up the hillside towards St Thomas' Church, Kuching, a small wooden building with bell tower, erected and consecrated in 1851. Photographer unknown, probably G.R. Lambert and Co.

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147 x 104 mm. View looking along the Sarawak River towards Fort Margherita on the hillside beyond. [Shelford Plate XXX].

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General view of the gaol at Kuching, a complex of whitewashed buildings with a crenellated imitation castle, presumably the Governor's quarters at the left.

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148 x 104 mm. General view of the house, a square tapering construction raised on stilts.

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Contains prints by various photographers. Some come from the collection of Sir Frank Swettenham, H.P. Bryson, and William Langham-Carter. The subjects are: 1-7, 75 Johore; 8-25 Kelantan; 26-40, 74 Kedah; 41-64 Trengganu [i.e. Terengganu]; 66-71, 94-95; Sumatra; 72-73 British North Borneo [i.e. Sabah], 76-93, 96 Miscellaneous; 65 Sarawak.

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146 x 103 mm. Head on view of the main façade of the Sarawak Museum, an ashlar faced two storey (plus attic) building with a verandah running along the first floor between the pavilions at each end. The Museum is entered through an arch running beneath a central flight of steps which mounts to the first floor. The Museum was founded in 1878. [Shelford plate XXIII].

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103 x 147 mm. View of a young orangutan in the branches of a tree.

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104 x 143 mm. Showing a mature orangutan (a dead specimen) seated at the base of a tree.

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104 x 148 mm. Showing a young orangutan lying on the ground in undergrowth.

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148 x 104 mm. View showing jockeys mounting up in the paddock of the Kuching Race Course. [Shelford plate XXIX].

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148 x 103 mm. View looking across a crossroads towards the single storey Police Station.

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147 x 104 mm. General view of the Public Offices, a group of single storey buildings with verandahs on all sides carried on whitewashed columns.

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An album depicting the visit to Sibu and Kapit.

Scope and Contents 148 x 103 mm. View of the Sarawak Rangers on parade. The early history of this body is obscure: some sources give a date of 1862 for the formation of the Corps. In S. Baring-Gould and C.A. Bampfylde, ‘A history of Sarawak under its two White Rajahs 1839-1908 (London, 1909)’ p 376, however, it is stated that ‘the force was established in 1846 under a native officer of the Ceylon Rifles’. This discrepancy probably occurs since before 1872 the Rangers were known as the Sarawak Fortmen, an...

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148 x 103 mm. Showing members of the force posed in the firing position in two ranks, a standing line formed behind a kneeling line.

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Glass plate slides to illustrate a talk given by Cunynghame to the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. A transcript of the lecture, comprising a title page and 58 pages of text, is stored at RCMS 63/22.

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Glass plate slides to illustrate a talk given by Cunynghame to the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. A transcript of the lecture, comprising a title page and 58 pages of text, is stored at RCMS 63/22.

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147 x 104 mm. View looking towards the square crenelated tower of the guardhouse, with the two storey prison buildings to the right. [Shelford plate XXXII].

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144 x 103 mm. View looking along the base of a Kayan longhouse, showing the structural supporting members.

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Extracted from the ‘Changi Guardian’, no. 47, 4 May 1942 (2 pages).

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View from a boat looking down onto the crowded wharf, with the whitewashed buildings of the gaol in the background.

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249 x 188 mm. Showing two labourers posed beside a truck loaded with antimony ore collected from the surface of the workings. With a thatched shed containing winding gear in the right foreground. The railway trucks seen here are considerably larger than those seen in Y3035B/6.

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147 x 103 mm. Half-length portrait of four Trusan Murut men.

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206 x 152 mm. As captioned.