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Melaka (inhabited place)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:

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Royal Society of St George, Malacca Club 1959, 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 2/80
Scope and Contents

126 x 81 mm. Showing S.J. Thompson, President of the Malacca branch of the Royal Society of St George seated at a dinner table with Dato Osman bin Talib (Malayan Civil Service) and Sir and Lady Cheng Lock Tan.

Dates: 1959
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Ruined chapel in grounds of Malacca Residency, 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 2/69
Scope and Contents

192 x 141 mm. As captioned.

Dates: 1922
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The 4th centenary of the Malacca Diocese (1557-1957), 1961

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/14/4
Scope and Contents

A series of articles by Rev. Fr. Manuel Teixeira tracing the history of the diocese, extracted from the journal 'Rally'.

Dates: 1961
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
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The drawing room, The Residency, Malacca, 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 2/67
Scope and Contents

113 x 156 mm. A view looking along the length of the room which has a high, curved ceiling broken by an arch at its mid-point, tiger skin rugs on the floor and numerous photographs and paintings on the walls and on easels.

Dates: 1922
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Princes' car passing through the India and Ceylon Arch, ? Malacca, 1922, 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 1/69
Scope and Contents

141 x 83 mm. As described, with spectators and motor cars in the foreground.

Dates: 1922
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Residency, Malacca, 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 2/64
Scope and Contents

190 x 154 mm (mounted on card). A view looking across the lawn towards the front façade of the Residency, a two-storey structure with open verandahs running around the building and surmounted by a pediment above the main entrance. The Residency was built on the bones of the older Residency between 1903 and 1905, and was situated on St Pauls Hill.

Dates: 1920
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Residency, Malacca, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 2/66
Scope and Contents

192 x 140 mm. A view looking across the lawn towards the Residency.

Dates: 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Residency, Malacca, 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 2/68
Scope and Contents

102 x 60 mm. A snapshot showing the front façade and one side of the Residency building. Photograph by William-Langham Carter (?).

Dates: 1922
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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'The story of Malacca', 1950 - 1961

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/7/3
Scope and Contents

The draft of a history of Malacca by Maurice Hellier. The manuscript is incomplete, with chapters 4 and 11 missing. Part 2, 'Malacca memories', is a personal memoir of Hillier's life in Malacca from 1888 to the First World War, which describes the social life and customs of its European, Malay and Chinese inhabitants, education, religion, health, law and order, shipping and economic conditions. Another copy of the memoir is filed at RCMS 103/3/5.

Dates: 1950 - 1961
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
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View of Malacca, 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 2/58
Scope and Contents

270 x 208 mm. A view looking across the bay towards Malay houses on stilts lining the waterfront. With a young Malay boy seated on an English cannon dating from the early nineteenth century in the foreground.

Dates: 1890 - 1899
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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