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153 x 112 mm. A view looking westwards across the Gombah River towards the Government Offices, only a small part of which are visible. In the foreground are tombstones in the Malay Cemetery situated just north of the confluence of the Gombah and Klang River.

Scope and Contents 156 x 112 mm. A view looking across the Gombah River towards the Government Offices built between 1893-1896 to serve as the centre of administration for the Federated Malay States, which came into being in 1895. The original design of the building, by A.C. Norman, was for a classical building in renaissance style, but although the general layout of the Offices were accepted by C.E. Spooner, the State Engineer, he made Norman change the decorative features to the modern Saracenic style...

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163 x 110 mm. A view looking northwest over Kuala Lumpur from the Residency Hill. The Federal Government Offices can be seen in the distance. The buildings (erected 1893-1896) appear to be completed, although the clock for the central tower is not yet in position. This was imported from England and placed in the tower in 1897.

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206 x 152 mm. A view looking across landscaped parkland and an approach road towards the modern Parliament buildings.

Scope and Contents 366 x 283 mm (mounted on card). An official group portrait of the conference participants taken in the specially built wooden pavilion. Figures identified are (front row, left to right starting from first European figure): (Sir) Henry Conway BELFIELD (1855-1923); British Resident, Selangor 1902-1912; (Sir) John Pickersgill RODGER (1851-1910); British Resident, Perak 1901-1904; (Sir) William Hood TREACHER (1849-1919); Resident General, F.M.S. 1902-1904; Allh el din Suleiman Shah; Sultan of...

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366 x 283 mm.

Scope and Contents 157 x 111 mm (mounted on card). The print is accompanied by handwritten identifications of several of the figures, but these include several errors. The most import of these appears to be the identification of the figure behind Egerton as Gaston Augustus Ives BOSANQUET, A.D.C to Swettenham. Bosanquet was in fact Private Secretary to Swettenham and is more likely to be the figure to the right of George Cumming. A.D.C. to Swettenham from 1900-1903 was Captain Frederic Delmar BARRY and...

Scope and Contents 233 x 91 mm. Photographic copy of an architect's drawing of the proposed stadium. A note on the reverse reads:'A perspective drawing of the proposed Stadium Negara, national indoor stadium in Kuala Lumpur. The Stadium Negara, which will be complementary to the Merdeka Stadium, is designed to cater for indoor games and indoor functions of national importance. It will be sited on the present playing field in Tunku Abdul Rahman Park between the Victoria Institution and Davidson...

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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.

Scope and Contents 75 x 127 mm. Showing Sir Laurence Nunns GUILLEMARD, Governor of the Straits Settlement 1919-1927 and Charles HARRIGAN (b 1877), Commissioner of Police, F.M.S. 1924-, review a police parade at Kuala Lumpur. Other figures identified in the print are (with rank in 1924): John Drew HUSSEY (1900-), Assistant Commissioner of Police; John Pennefather PENNEFATHER-EVANS (1894-), Acting Deputy Commissioner of Police, F.M.S., John Douglas DALLEY (1900-), First Assistant Commissioner of Police,...

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Peach’s account of his career as a teacher and missionary. Subjects include descriptions of his living and working conditions, the contribution of his wife Norah Nelson, standards of education, the contribution of Christian schools to Malay life, the growth of the school system and its Asian leadership, inter-faith cooperation, evacuation from Malaya during the Second World War, public health, political changes and the many friendships he formed with British colleagues (24 sheets).

Scope and Contents 163 x 110 mm. A general view of the Residency building, a two storey house with tiled roof and a colonade of pillars running round the house supporting the verandahs on the first floor. The pencilled caption is in Swettenhams hand, but there is some doubt about the date: it appears to be a later picture than BAM 4/8 which is dated (again by Swettenham) 1882-1883 and considerable alterations have been effected. The original Residency is recorded in the Selangor Annual Report for 1881 as...

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191 x 144 mm. Showing the two rugby teams posed on the steps of the Selangor Club.

Scope and Contents 273 x 228 mm (mounted on card). A group photograph taken in front of the Palace of the Sultan at Kuala Lumpur. Originally dated 1904, the photograph can however have been taken in 1905 at the earliest, since Sir William Taylor wears the order of the K.C.M.G awarded to him in that year. Figures identified in the group are: Oliver MARKS (1866-1940); Secretary to the High Commissioner and later British Resident in Negri Sembilan and Selangor; Eric MAXWELL; no information; (?) R.W. BROOKS; no...

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130 x 78 mm. Showing a group of seated spectators at a football match. Identified on the reverse of print are: Dato' HAMZAH; Mrs H.P. BRYSON; H.P. BRYSON; Dr C.P. RAWSON; Chief Social Welfare Officer.

Scope and Contents 133 x 81 mm. Showing row of seated spectators watching the match. Identified on the reverse of the print are: (?) Mrs CURTIS; wife of R.J.F. Curtis; C.P. RAWSON; The Raja Muda, later Sultan SALAHUDDIN ABDUL AZIZ (1926-); Sultan of Selangor 1960- ; Richard John Froude CURTIS (1897-); Malayan Civil Service 1920-1950; Chief Secretary 1946-1950; Lady GURNEY; Sir HISAMUDDIN ALAM SHAH (circa 1898-1960); Sultan of Selangor 1938-1960; Sir Henry Lovell Goldsworthy GURNEY (1898-1951); High...

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203 x 154 mm. Showing Sir Hisamuddin Alam Shah ibni AlMarhum Sultan Alaibin SULEIMAN SHAH (d 1960), Sultan of Selangor 1938-1960, standing on a platform with the British Resident Richard John Fronde [i.e. Froude] CURTIS. Sultan Hisamuddin was elected Yang di-Pertuan Agong in 1960, but died before taking up his post.

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Copy of a photograph album compiled by John de Lucy’s parents, Peter and Dorothy, documenting his childhood, family life and holidays on the Amherst Rubber Estate near Kuala Lumpur. It concludes with a visit of the family to Britain.

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189 x 141 mm. General view of the exterior of the Mosque, with palms in the foreground.

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189 x 141 mm. General view of the exterior of Kuala Lumpur Railway Station, built in an exuberant 'Saracenic' style.

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355 x 269 mm. A view of Carcosa taken from a similar angle to the preceding print, but from a closer viewpoint. The first mention of the Residency in the Selangor Annual Reports is in 1897 (in C.9108 of 1898) and the following years entry (in C.9524 of 1899, p. 36) appears to indicate the completion of the building. This photograph was almost certainly taken on the same occasion as the preceding print.

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251 x 188 mm (mounted on card). A view looking up the Residency Hill towards the square, two-storey Residency buildings at the summit. The Residency, was originally the Klang Residency and was dismantled and rebuilt at Kuala Lumpur in 1881-1882.

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165 x 114 mm. The caption on the reverse reads 'The engineering students are given as wide as possible range of instruction to train for various types of work they are likely to get in later life. These students are working in the school's forging section'. It continues, at length, giving a brief history of the Trade Schools in Malaya.