Melaka (inhabited place)
Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:
Royal Society of St George, Malacca Club 1959, 1959
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.
Ruined chapel in grounds of Malacca Residency, 1922
192 x 141 mm. As captioned.
The 4th centenary of the Malacca Diocese (1557-1957), 1961
A series of articles by Rev. Fr. Manuel Teixeira tracing the history of the diocese, extracted from the journal 'Rally'.
The drawing room, The Residency, Malacca, 1922
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.
The Princes' car passing through the India and Ceylon Arch, ? Malacca, 1922, 1922
141 x 83 mm. As described, with spectators and motor cars in the foreground.
The Residency, Malacca, 1920
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.
The Residency, Malacca, 1910
192 x 140 mm. A view looking across the lawn towards the Residency.
The Residency, Malacca, 1922
102 x 60 mm. A snapshot showing the front façade and one side of the Residency building. Photograph by William-Langham Carter (?).
'The story of Malacca', 1950 - 1961
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.
View of Malacca, 1890 - 1899
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.