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122 x 178 mm.

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208 x 152 mm. Showing a young Chinese girl seated amongst a pile of recently harvested pineapples.

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280 x 208 mm. Showing a Chinese cemetery, presumably in Penang, with an ornamental lake in the left foreground, graves to the right and an open-walled pavilion beyond.

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282 x 196 mm. Showing the temple, perched on a hillside among palm trees at Ayer Itam in the Lundu District of Penang.

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104 x 197 mm.

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280 x 208 mm. Showing western façade of the Court House, a two storey building with a prominent portico containing an entrance stairway. A group of mixed races stands at the base of the Tuscan orders at the front of the building. The court buildings were situated in an area of land bounded by Light Street, Farquhar Street and Pitt Street.

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209 x 256 mm. Showing two Malay women being driven home from market in a cycle-rickshaw.

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135 x 82 mm. Dead animal in jungle.

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140 x 90 mm. Head and forelegs of an elephant with a Malay in the background.

Scope and Contents 271 x 208 mm. A view of St Georges Church from the junction of Farquhar and Pitt Streets. Built by convict labour in 1817. , it is the oldest Church of England church in Malaya. Reminiscent in general style to St Martin in the Fields, the façade is fronted by four pairs of Tuscan orders which are echoed by similar groupings of pilasters inside the portico and along the side of the building. The tower is surmounted by a small octagonal spire. The inscription (not visible in this print)...

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279 x 207 mm. A view looking west along Farquhar Street towards the entrance to the Hotel d'Europe, with the entrance to Clarendon Lodge at the left.

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80 x 129 mm. Head-on view showing the decorated prow of a fishing boat.

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114 x 157 mm. Showing the renovated church, floodlit for the re-opening celebrations.

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A view from the sea looking towards the harbour channel. F.M.S. is an abbreviation for Federated Malay States.

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156 x 102 mm. Showing the Government Dairy, shops, bungalows and part of the golf course at Frasers Hill.

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206 x 157 mm. A view from the driveway of the house seen in the preceding print, with a string of ponies held by Indian servants lined up on the lawn. Photograph probably by M.A. Cameron.

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153 x 207 mm. As captioned.

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153 x 103 mm. As captioned.

Scope and Contents 275 x 208 mm. A view looking along a roadway towards a large spreading tree beneath which a group of men is standing. Beside the roadway in the left foreground is a spirit and opium shop. Exact location unidentified, although Purcell (1928, p. 81) states that the Pine Apple Lane referred to [in a 1807-1808 map of George Town] is now Gottlieb Road. Whether this picture shows a portion of Gottlieb Road, which ran along the southern edge of Mount Erskine Cemetery, has not been determined. ...

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137 x 83 mm. View looking across thick forest on Penang Hill towards the bungalow.

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205 x 154 mm. A view looking across the wooded gardens towad the Government Bungalow (partially obscured by trees).

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154 x 204 mm. A view from the aeroplane looking down on the parachutist.

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206 x 140 mm. General view, with steamers and small boats.

Scope and Contents 277 x 195 mm. A view from the junction of Farquhar Street and Penang Road showing the wall surrounding the hotel but very little of the buildings themselves. A sign in the right foreground indicates the hotel entrance. The Hotel d'Europe was situated just off Farquhar Street on the northern waterfront. The history of the hotel has not been traced but this appears to be the establishment taken over by the Sarkies Brothers (founders of Raffles Hotel, Singapore) and later named the Eastern...

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80 x 55 mm. Probably the 'shop houses', the school premise when Miss Foss took over.