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272 x 206 mm. A view looking along Beach Street which runs NE-SW parallel to the waterfront and behind Victoria Street and Weld Quay. In the right foreground a three storey building houses G. Izolphe's hairdressing saloon, the Grand Hotel, the Pilots Club and Abdoul Sanat, watch-makers; these premises were later taken over by Kennedy and Co. Further down the street are the offices of the Pinang Gazette press, which in the left foreground are the Criterion Tiffin and Billiard Rooms.

Scope and Contents 271 x 209 mm. A view of the Club premises, a low square stone building with a tiled roof and a verandah running the length of one façade (? the northern). The Club, founded in 1868, was situated in the north-west part of George Town, near the Telegraph Office and off Northern Road. Cartwright ((ed), 1908, p. 744) gives this description: The Club premises...are pleasantly situated on the sea-front ... Passing through the spacious entrance-hall, with the committee and secretary's rooms on...

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276 x 208 mm. A view looking along an outer wall towards a bastion, with a wooden bridge crossing the moat (drained in 1922) to a gateway into the fort. Fort Cornwallis replaced the stockade erected by Captain Light for the defence of the settlement, but by the later years of the century its defensive importance had waned and its main use was as a signal station.

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133 x 79 mm. A photographic copy of William Daniell's aquatint from Captain Robert Smith's painting. The view looks across Pulau Tikus Bay and George Town towards Kedah on the mainland.

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153 x 79 m. A photographic copy of William Daniell's aquatint from Captain Robert Smith's painting. The view looks towards Pulau Jerajak and the mainland.

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270 x 209 mm. A view looking along an almost dry stream bed towards the small bridge and wooded hillside. Photograph possibly taken at the same location as BAM 10/51.

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144 x 100 mm. A view showing the stone viaduct on Penang Hill, with the line curving away up the hill in the background.

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101 x 133 mm.

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Distant view from sea.

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149 x 108 mm. Showing a group of European men examining rifles in the foreground, with the lady competitors seated beyond. The figures in the group have not been identified.

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156 x 111 mm. Showing a group of ladies in the firing position, with spectators and judges standing behind.

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283 x 207 mm. View looking down onto the beach towards the clubhouse.

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270 x 209 mm. A view looking north-east along the waterfront towards the jetty. With small sailing boats in the foreground.

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270 x 209 mm.

Scope and Contents 280 x 208 mm. A view looking along a foreshore at Penang, exact location unidentified but probably the section running parallel to Northern Road. A number of houses can be seen among the trees lining the beach, the nearest of which is identified in a pencilled caption beside the print as House of Dr Glass. This is probably not a contemporary annotation and may refer to G.S. Glass who is listed in the 1925 edition of the Directory and Chronicle of Japan, China, etc. as Assistant Health...

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115 x 75 mm. Photograph mounted in a greeting card of the Perak Flying Club, Ipoh. It shows the club hangar, with part of a biplane visible in the foreground.

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There are four main sets of photographs: jungle-dwelling Sakai men, a beach at Port Dickson, the Buckleys' bungalow at Swettenham Road, Kuala Lumpur, where they lived 1937-1940, and the Cameron Hills. These are followed by a number of individual photographs dating from the Buckleys' time in Malaya, with one taken in Australia. All of the photographs are in black-and-white.

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206 x 154 mm. A view from the river bank looking towards the pontoon bridge across the Prai River, Province Wellesley. Exact location unidentified.

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102 x 73 mm. A view looking along an unidentified waterfront, with Malay houses on stilts in the background.

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154 x 190 mm. Showing a Malay girl attaching silk thread to the bobbins of a loom.

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152 x 101 mm. Showing a buffalo, controlled by a Chinese farmer, ploughing a paddy field.

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Collection of photographs mounted on a sheet of paper with handwritten captions.

Josephine Foss, M.B.E., arrived in Malaya in 1923 and was sent to take charge of Pudu School. Conditions were poor, but new buildings were obtained and the school was greatly developed.

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210 x 155 mm. A general view of the lighthouse neighbouring buildings on the small island of Pulau Rimau which lies off the extreme south east tip of Penang Island. From the piles of building material and newly cleared bush still in evidence, the photograph would appear to have been taken around 1883. The lighthouse was built between 1881-1883 and the light erected the following year (Straits Settlements Blue Books, 1881-1884).

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103 x 114 mm. Full length portrait of the four regalia bearers who accompany the Sultan on ceremonial occasions.

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138 x 88. A view looking along the curving driveway towards the (?) east façade of the Residency.