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49 x 74 mm. A view looking towards the main entrance and clock tower of the Secretariat.

Scope and Contents 287 x 168 mm. Showing the members of the two teams posed outside the Selangor club during the July/August 1927 tour. Some identifications are written on the reverse of the print: (Seated) - E.R. MAYNE (Aust.); A.J. Bostock HILL (Malaya); W.H. WOODFULL (Aust.); Dr P.H. HENNESSY (Malaya); C.G. McCARTNEY (Capt., Aust.); Hon H.W. THOMSON (Actg. Chf. Secretary); Hon. J. LORNIE (Actg. Brit. Resident); N.J.A. FOSTER (Capt., Malaya); W.A. OLDFIELD (Aust.); C.H. CONGDON (Malaya); S.C. EVERETT; T.J....

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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.

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Showing G.E. Hughes, dressed in a sarong and reclining in a wickerwork lounger. George Edward Erskine Hughes (b 1874) was appointed Acting Assistant Inspector of Mines, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor in 1900.

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241 x 165 mm. A view showing the single storied brick building with tiled roof, nearing completion. Scaffolding is still in place and piles of builders rubble lies in front of the building. The Selangor Annual Report for 1884 lists the completion of quarters for the Treasurer, although this building is evidently a public office rather than a domestic residence.

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127 mm. Showing the Governor of the Straits Settlements (probably Sir Laurence Nunns Guillemard) taking the salute during a march past of troops or policemen. A photograph possibly taken on the same occasion as BAM 4/31.

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View looking along a wide tree-shaded avenue towards the entrance gates of the Pauper Hospital.

Scope and Contents 265 x 208 mm (mounted on card). A group portrait showing Europeans, Chinese, Malays and Indians arranged (probably) in front of the Residency, Kuala Lumpur. Figures identified in Swettenham's hand beneath the print are: YAP AH SHAK (d 1889); Chinese businessman and trader; arrived in Kuala Lumpur 1870; Capitan China 1885-1889; Magistrate and High Court Assessor under British Administration; Dr Augustine W. SINCLAIR; formerly Medical Officer in Upper Sarawak, Borneo and Kinta, Perak;...

Scope and Contents 140 x 82 mm. Showing a group in military uniform posed informally in the Lake Gardens. The figures are identified on the reverse of the print as: Albert Wolfgang JUST (1869-); Junior Officer, Perak 1892; appointed Magistrate, Kuala Lumpur 1917; William Arthur WHITE (1874-); G.P.O. Singapore 1903; Senior Assistant Auditor, External Audit 1917; Edgar Maurice BAKER (1870-); Secretariat, Singapore 1889; Assistant Treasurer, F.M.S. 1907; (Sir) Andrew CALDECOTT (1884-1951); Malay Civil Service...

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View of Chinese houses in a Kuala Lumpur street.

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View looking along a tree-shaded road in Kuala Lumpur.

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Street scene.

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General view of office with desks, looking towards verandah

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154 x 202 mm. Showing the Lord President, Dato' Sir James Thomson (1902-1983), preceded by the mace bearer, inspecting the Guard of Honour at the inauguration of the Federal Court.

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206 x 153 mm. Showing a military review taking place, probably in the Merdeka Stadium, Kuala Lumpur on the anniversary of Malayas Independence.

Scope and Contents 154 x 202 mm. Showing Tuanku Abdul Rahman kissing the Keris Kerajaan (Sword of State) during the ceremony installing him as Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Independent Malaya. The elected Kingship of of Malaya was the result of proposals of the Reid Constitutional Commission of 1956 which covered provisions for a head of state to be elected from amongst the rulers of the various states, and who would hold office for five years. Tuanku Abdul Rahman served only three years of his term of office...

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240 x 187 mm. Showing the driveway, entrance portico and front façade of the building.

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157 x 115 mm. Showing a research worker examining a specimen under a slide. The caption on the reverse reads '(30). Back at the I.M.R. at Kuala Lumpur, exhibition models of mosquitoes decorate the research worker's desk. In the foreground is the anophiles, or malaria-carrying mosquito'.

Scope and Contents 242 x 169 mm. Showing flyovers at the Kuala Lumpur section of the Asian Highway. A note on the reverse of the print reads:'The Asian Highway, a project initiated in 1958 by ECAFE, aims at modernizing and linking up existing roads into a 34,000-mile network of highways that would span Asia from Turkey and Iraq to the Republic of Viet-Nam, Singapore and Indonesia. Priority Route A-1 runs from Saigon through eight countries, while Priority Route A-2 runs from the Iraq border to...

Scope and Contents 155 x 155 mm. Showing the main shopping thoroughfare of Kuala Lumpur. A note on the reverse reads:'Busy Jalan Mountbatten in Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia's capital city. In the heart of the city, this is the capital's main shopping thprough [sic]. Picture shows office block in Moorish-style architecture in the background and trishaw rider on the street. The cosmopolitan aspect of this city is seen in the intermingling of the people of various nationalities as shown in the...

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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The origin of this collection is not known, but it appears to have been assembled for a travelling exhibition, and each print is marked Copy neg. Photoscale May 1965. Sources are given where known. Prints are 215 x 160 mm.

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 towards Welds Hill with atap houses in the foreground. A photograph probably taken from a spot near the east bank of the Klang River.