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A collection of captioned glass negatives illustrating the CMS's work, many dated 1937.

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A collection of captioned glass negatives illustrating the CMS's work.

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Framed albumen prints, measuring approximately 280 x 210 mm (500 x 400 including card frames).

Y302F/1-4: Chinese interiors.
Y302F/5-6: Canton flower boat and interior view.
Y302F/7: Western suburbs looking North (Canton) by Afong Lai, 1874 (after the devastating typhoon of 1874).
Y302F/8: Chinese grave on White Cloud Mountain, c. 1870s.

Scope and Contents The collection includes copies of letters written by Hay to family and friends. Three describe his work with the Protectorate, colleagues, travel and leisure and are dated 1923, Canton; 1929, Taiping; and 1933, Kuala Lumpur (17 sheets). A second series of letters dating from 1940-42 narrates Hay’s wartime experience (57 sheets). The collection includes a copy of a photograph showing a memorial plaque honouring Hay and other members of the Chinese Protectorate who lost their lives...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Album of photographs recording Paton's missionary work in China. The photographs are captioned and have been numbered in pencil, but as there are several sequences, and these are not complete, fresh numbers have been given. Plates 68 to 78 show scenes taken in late August 1896 on Kulangsoo, the island south of Amoy (also known as Xiamen). The institutional work of the Amoy mission was centred here as it was found to be healthier than Amoy itself.There are three missing...

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276 x 205 mm. View looking along the waterfront at Amoy towards the main part of the city, with sailing vessels moored in the harbour in the background. In the foreground is a cluster of small houses and warehouses running down to a stone jetty. Photographer unknown.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Album of photographs recording Paton's missionary work in China. The photographs are captioned and have been numbered in pencil, but as there are several sequences, and these are not complete, fresh numbers have been given. Plates 68 to 78 show scenes taken in late August 1896 on Kulangsoo, the island south of Amoy (also known as Xiamen). The institutional work of the Amoy mission was centred here as it was found to be healthier than Amoy itself.There are three missing...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Album of photographs recording Paton's missionary work in China. The photographs are captioned and have been numbered in pencil, but as there are several sequences, and these are not complete, fresh numbers have been given. Plates 68 to 78 show scenes taken in late August 1896 on Kulangsoo, the island south of Amoy (also known as Xiamen). The institutional work of the Amoy mission was centred here as it was found to be healthier than Amoy itself.There are three missing...

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Article published in the American Journal of International Law on Japan's invasion of the Manchuria region of China.

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Originals and transcripts of letters between MAR and his mother, and later between him and his wife, Gladys.

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Originals and transcripts of letters between MAR and his mother, and later between him and his wife, Gladys.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Loads of fuel - shrub oak and fir. [Men and mules in the foreground].

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Landscape format. The five-storeyed pagoda, and a fort to the left outside the wall. [With a river in the foreground].

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Half-plate (landscape format). [Showing steps leading up to wooden doors, some painted, of single storey building, with two men standing on the steps and a stone carved lion at the foot of the steps].

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Half-plate. [View from a covered area with carved eaves above, across to a well bolted wooden doorway in a wall and eaves of another building beyond].

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268 x 213 mm. Showing the path to the tombs of the Ming emperors outside Nanjing, flanked by 12 foot high statues of soldiers on guard. Nanjing was the capital of China until it was moved to Peking in 1421.

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265 x 212 mm. View showing the statues of kneeling elephants on the path leading to the Ming tombs outside Nanjing.

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Landscape format.

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Landscape format.

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From the mainland. [Distant view across the water]

Scope and Contents Correspondence on and drafts and final texts of articles by AFB sent to overseas newspapers and journals, mostly from the African and Asian press. Subjects of the articles include: revisiting Lincoln prison; Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe]; AFB's visit to the Soviet Union, 1965 [see also FEBR 2/10]; the Bou Saada project to grow crops in the Algerian desert [see also FEBR 2/10, 3/1 and 7/9]; the Vietnam War; the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation; the responsibilities of the...

Scope and Contents Articles written by Onraet, many for publication in the press:‘Breakers ahead’‘Britain and Malaya’‘A Chinese conversation’‘Chinese secret societies and the police, Nov. 1945’‘Crime and Communism in Malaya’‘A criticism of the unified colonial police service’‘The future of our colonial police services’‘Indians in Malaya’‘In retrospect’‘Investigation and intelligence in Malaya’‘Makan sejur’‘Malay...

Scope and Contents Ten volumes of cuttings from 'The field', including a few articles from other publications, and loose cuttings concerning the Malay Peninsula. The volumes concern countries throughout the world, but in particular Australia, British East Africa (Kenya), Canada, India, New Zealand, Nigeria, Rhodesia, South Africa, Uganda, United States and the West Indies. The articles cover a wide range of subjects, including administration, agriculture, the British Empire, climate, colonisation,...

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82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, largely undated captions.

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Calculations made during Clementi's journey through India, Tibet and China, 1907-1908.