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205 x 154 mm. A view looking across the wooded gardens towad the Government Bungalow (partially obscured by trees).

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206 x 140 mm. General view, with steamers and small boats.

Scope and Contents 277 x 195 mm. A view from the junction of Farquhar Street and Penang Road showing the wall surrounding the hotel but very little of the buildings themselves. A sign in the right foreground indicates the hotel entrance. The Hotel d'Europe was situated just off Farquhar Street on the northern waterfront. The history of the hotel has not been traced but this appears to be the establishment taken over by the Sarkies Brothers (founders of Raffles Hotel, Singapore) and later named the Eastern...

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220 x 152 mm. Showing a locomotive pulling out of the station at Prai in Province Wellesley. The train is composed of Thai State Railway coaches and one Malayan Railway sleeping coach.

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281 x 208 mm. A view looking along King Street which runs north-east from Chulia Street to the corner of the Padang at Light Street. This view shows the north-east section with the Padang and the sea just visible in the background.

Scope and Contents 237 x 183 mm. A carefully posed study of five Kling women grouped in front of the whitewashed wall of a European house. The Klings (the term has since the turn of the century been considered highly deregoratory) were the Tamil immigrants who formed the lowest classes of labour. The women in this picture wear saris and the characteristic toe and nose rings. The Alma Estate, situated some seven miles from Prye, originally consisted of some 500 acres planted out by a Mr Wilson during the...

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212 x 158 mm. A view looking down, probably from the base of the lighthouse onto the long, single storied wooden building with verandah and tiled roof. Muka is situated at the extreme north-west tip of Penang Island. A photograph probably taken shortly after the completion of these buildings in 1884 (Straits Settlements Blue Book, 1884).

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These letters are largely a record of Cameron's domestic arrangements and social life, with some mention of his work inspecting or supervising the construction of roads, bridges, buildings, lighthouses, and the harbour and defences of Singapore. They also briefly describe his appointment as president of a commission set up in 1890-91 to advise upon the supply of labour. The letters from 1891 narrate a visit to China and Japan (circa 250 sheets).

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Letters containing Ursula Holttum's account of her return to Singapore after leaving it in 1940 soon after the outbreak of the Second World War (28 sheets).

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276 x 208 mm. A view looking along Light Street which runs west from Fort Cornwallis and along the Esplanade. The precise section of the street here shown has not been located.

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'The log book of Capt. John Edwards, R.N. Given to Robert Stafford Edwards by his Aunt Miss Jane Edwards 1880. Solihull. Warwickshire.'

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208 x 155 mm. A view looking along the unkempt garden towards the thatched and verandahed bungalow. Posed in front of the building are a European family (unidentified) and Indian servants. Lomond Bungalow was situated on the northern end of Penang (or Government) Hill.

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208 x 154 mm. A view looking along the main street which is lined with low thatched houses, beneath the verandahs of which are traders and their wares. Beyond is a European building (? possibly the hospital built 1883). Balik Pulau is situated in the centre of Penang.

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Coloured oilette postcards of Malaya by Raphael Tuck and Sons Ltd. marked 'Series II', but not separately numbered.

Scope and Contents 62 x 88 mm. Showing the statue of Captain Francis Light (1740-1794), founder of Prince of Wales Island (Penang) in 1786. Light died of malaria on the island and was buried in the old Protestant Cemetery in Northam Road, George Town. The bronze statue designed by Frederick J. Wilcoxson, was originally sited in Fort Cornwallis and was unveiled in 1939. It was removed during the Japanese occupation and re-erected in 1946 in front of the High Court in Light Street. The only known...

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227 x 191 mm. Studio portrait.

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284 x 185 mm. View looking along the Esplanade at Penang from Court Cornwallis with the Municipal Buildings on the far side of the cricket ground, and the Town Hall (partially obscured by trees) to the left.

Scope and Contents A scrapbook of cuttings from newspapers of the Straits Settlements concerning events in the colony. Much of the volume is concerned with Brown's involvement with the Legislative Council. There are articles regarding his disputed nomination by the Penang Chamber of Commerce in 1893, and his appointment to the Council in 1894 and 1897. There is also extensive coverage of the Council’s work, including newscuttings on the passage of bills regarding harbours, Indian immigration, liquor, opium...

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274 x 208 mm. A view looking westwards and along Northern Road with the Lartut Road junction in the left middleground. The road leading off to the right probably goes to the Telegraph Office and the Penang Club.

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217 x 285 mm. A view of the lower section of Penang Waterfall, situated in the gardens at the foot of Penang Hill. Photograph probably by M.A. Cameron.

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A view looking along a Chinese street.

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272 x 206 mm. A view looking along Beach Street which runs NE-SW parallel to the waterfront and behind Victoria Street and Weld Quay. In the right foreground a three storey building houses G. Izolphe's hairdressing saloon, the Grand Hotel, the Pilots Club and Abdoul Sanat, watch-makers; these premises were later taken over by Kennedy and Co. Further down the street are the offices of the Pinang Gazette press, which in the left foreground are the Criterion Tiffin and Billiard Rooms.

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Correspondence between Donald Simpson, D. C. L. Wilson, Executive Director of the Malaysian International Chamber of Commerce, and R. P. S. Walker, regarding the history of the Penang Chamber of Commerce (10 sheets).

Scope and Contents 271 x 209 mm. A view of the Club premises, a low square stone building with a tiled roof and a verandah running the length of one façade (? the northern). The Club, founded in 1868, was situated in the north-west part of George Town, near the Telegraph Office and off Northern Road. Cartwright ((ed), 1908, p. 744) gives this description: The Club premises...are pleasantly situated on the sea-front ... Passing through the spacious entrance-hall, with the committee and secretary's rooms on...

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The collection includes:

1. Official appointment by the East India Company of John Alexander Bannerman as Governor of Prince of Wales Island (Penang), 1817.

2. Letter of notification and official appointment of William Edward Phillips to succeed Bannerman, 1820.

3. Miscellaneous items associated with Phillips, 1819-26, chiefly relating to his appointment as governor and his retirement in 1824.