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A view showing ships moored to a jetty at Sabang with part of the hull of the 'Indrawadi' visible at the left of the slide.

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A view showing workers carrying wicker baskets filled with coal onto a moored ship (probably the 'Indrawadi').

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An underexposed print showing a ship's officer standing in a shady square in Sabang with a bar in the background.

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A view looking along a street in Sabang with parkland and trees at the right of the slide.

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A view showing a stone gateway and a tree in Sabang with grassland beyond. Presumably the remains of a more extensive wall.

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A view showing a white-suited figure standing in a roadway in Sabang with a large white house and palm trees behind him.

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A view showing a ship's officer and a man holding up an octopus for the camera.

Scope and Contents Album of photographs of various sizes with one loose one inserted. A note by the donor E. Walker states that the photographs, ‘were taken mostly by one of the brothers Logan of Penang, members of the legal profession and after one of whom Logan Road, Penang was named. The name is (or was) associated with the legal firm of Logan, Ross and Samuels, Penang.’ The plates have hand-written captions, which have been recorded as found. Nos 1-26 relate to Sumatra, 27-41 to Singapore and 42-63 to...

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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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353 x 267 mm. A view looking across undulating, newly-cleared land planted out with rows of tobacco seedlings. A photograph probably taken a short time after the covers, used to protect the seedlings from the sun, had been removed. The plants are ready for harvesting some 80-90 days after the seedlings have been transplanted and after one crop the land was either abandoned or put to other uses for several years before tobacco was planted there again.

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352 x 267 mm. A view looking across fields of growing tobacco, with plantation buildings in the distance. This is probably the Paya Dajamboe Estate, in the Selesse District, owned by the Paya Dajamboe Company and managed in 1887 by J. Peachey. Its size in that year was 2, 666 acres.

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165 x 135 mm. View looking along the main street of an unidentified village in Sumatra, with thatched houses lining the road.

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239 x 181 mm. A view looking upstream towards a waterfall on an unidentified river.