Scope and Contents 213 x 272 mm. Showing the arrival of Sir Frank Swettenham (standing beside coach) at the wooden pavilion constructed for the conference of the rulers and administrators of the Federated Malay States held in Kuala Lumpur in July 1903. In the foreground stands a guard of honour of Indian Cavalry. This was the second such conference but this occasion did not yield such a whole hearted expression of appreciation of British rule as its precessor. In particular, the Sultan of Perak complained...

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366 x 271 mm. A view looking down on the Padang from the roof of the Selangor Club with a football match in progress, spectators lining the pitch and a band playing at the left. Part of the Government Offices can be seen in the background.

Scope and Contents 264 x 207 mm (mounted on card). A view looking across Java Street towards the verandahed commercial premises of Chinese traders. Beyond these substantial stone buildings with tiled roofs are more modest atap houses. These more modern buildings are probably seen here soon after completion: one of the first orders promulgated by Swettenham on his arrival as Resident in 1882 was that all houses should be rebuilt with corrugated iron roofs. This order never came into effect, but in 1884 a...

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264 x 207 mm (mounted on card). A view looking towards Welds Hill with atap houses in the foreground. A photograph probably taken from a spot near the east bank of the Klang River.

Scope and Contents 265 x 207 mm (mounted on card). A view from just above the west bank looking down onto the Klang River, with the atap houses of Kuala Lumpur on the far side. Beside the road in the foreground is an open-sided atap house where a number of carpenters are planing wood to form planks. The note in Swettenham's hand on the reverse reads: 'This is the point from which, in 1882, just to the right of the picture, the road started to ascend the hill on which were the Residency and all other...

Scope and Contents 265 x 207 mm (mounted on card). A view looking down onto the Klang River and across to Welds Hill (still at this period heavily wooded) with a sprinkling of Malay houses with atap roofs clustered around the river. The area in the foreground was later to be the site of the Government Offices and cricket ground. The view looks eastward from a point a little to the south of the confluence of the Klang and Gombah Rivers. The photograph dates from the period just after the British centre of...

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266 x 207 mm (mounted on card). A view, taken from a similar location to the preceding print, but nearer to the Klang River, looking across towards Weld's Hill, with atap houses in the foreground.

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264 x 207 mm (mounted on card). A view looking across uneven, partially cleared scrubland towards (on the left) the square, two storey wooden quarters of Captain Syers, and (on the right) the Police Barracks, a series of long single storey buildings raised on brick pillars. Gullick (1955, p. 27-28) provides a detailed description of the buildings.

Scope and Contents 264 x 207 mm (mounted on card). Showing the square two storey, Magistrate's quarters set among partially cleared scrubland with a somewhat overgrown garden area laid out in front of the building. The Magistrate's quarters were completed in 1883 according to the Annual Financial Report for Selangor for that year (in C. 4192 of 1884), but if this print shows the building during Henry Conway Belfields occupancy it must date from 1884 at the earliest, in which year Belfield was appointment to...

Scope and Contents 265 x 208 mm (mounted on card). Showing the Kuala Lumpur market buildings, an open sided building with a tiled roof supported by brick stanchions and situated near the east bank of the Klang River south of Market Street. The market and its site were originally under the control of the Capitan China Yap Ah Loy. Gullick (1955, p. 42) describes Swettenhams views on the market: On its reversion to the State, certain improvements were made to the building and shortly afterwards a more...

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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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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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352 x 269 mm. A view looking up from the Lake Gardens towards Carcosa, the official residence of the Resident General of the Federated Malay States. The building with its timber gables looks over the ornamental gardens and was constructed in 1897-1898 under the supervision of Charles Edwin Spooner who as State Engineer was also responsible for the Federal Government Offices. It is probable that the building was designed by A.C. Norman.