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Also described as: 'Aden, Hong Kong, ?1909'.

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Issued to Kate Marjorie Hutchinson, teacher, 1918, with endorsements from the Canadian Department of External Affairs, the Japanese and Chinese consulates in Vancouver and the Penang registrar, 1918-1919. The passport has the seal of the Barbados colony.

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122 x 178 mm.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a private album, measuring 260 x 230 mm, containing photographs of various formats taken by an amateur, supplemented by landscapes bought from commercial studios. Most images are captioned in white ink and captions have been recorded as found. They may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. The captions have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. A number of photographs are missing, although their captions remain. The...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a private album, measuring 260 x 230 mm, containing photographs of various formats taken by an amateur, supplemented by landscapes bought from commercial studios. Most images are captioned in white ink and captions have been recorded as found. They may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. The captions have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. A number of photographs are missing, although their captions remain. The...

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Images of the laying of telephone or telegraph cable.

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280 x 208 mm. Showing a Chinese cemetery, presumably in Penang, with an ornamental lake in the left foreground, graves to the right and an open-walled pavilion beyond.

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104 x 197 mm.

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280 x 208 mm. Showing western façade of the Court House, a two storey building with a prominent portico containing an entrance stairway. A group of mixed races stands at the base of the Tuscan orders at the front of the building. The court buildings were situated in an area of land bounded by Light Street, Farquhar Street and Pitt Street.

Scope and Contents 271 x 208 mm. A view of St Georges Church from the junction of Farquhar and Pitt Streets. Built by convict labour in 1817. , it is the oldest Church of England church in Malaya. Reminiscent in general style to St Martin in the Fields, the façade is fronted by four pairs of Tuscan orders which are echoed by similar groupings of pilasters inside the portico and along the side of the building. The tower is surmounted by a small octagonal spire. The inscription (not visible in this print)...

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An account of the attack of the German cruiser Emden upon Penang on 28 Oct. 1914, in which it sank the Russian cruiser Zhemchug and the French destroyer Mousquet (2 sheets).

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279 x 207 mm. A view looking west along Farquhar Street towards the entrance to the Hotel d'Europe, with the entrance to Clarendon Lodge at the left.

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114 x 157 mm. Showing the renovated church, floodlit for the re-opening celebrations.

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A view from the sea looking towards the harbour channel. F.M.S. is an abbreviation for Federated Malay States.

Scope and Contents 275 x 208 mm. A view looking along a roadway towards a large spreading tree beneath which a group of men is standing. Beside the roadway in the left foreground is a spirit and opium shop. Exact location unidentified, although Purcell (1928, p. 81) states that the Pine Apple Lane referred to [in a 1807-1808 map of George Town] is now Gottlieb Road. Whether this picture shows a portion of Gottlieb Road, which ran along the southern edge of Mount Erskine Cemetery, has not been determined. ...

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137 x 83 mm. View looking across thick forest on Penang Hill towards the bungalow.

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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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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.

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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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Imic Hazalton's bungalow Penang Island before boarding the Chitral.

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Imic Hazalton's bungalow Penang Island before boarding the Chitral.

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Imic Hazalton's bungalow Penang Island before boarding the Chitral.

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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.