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Set of ten 112 x 75 mm. glossy prints depicting village scenes

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150 x 203 mm. glossy print with 110 x 153 mm. copy

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190 x 240 mm. glossy print.

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240 x 190 mm. glossy print.

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115 x 115 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.

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141 x 108 mm. glossy print with a copy and 240 x 190 mm. enlargement.

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56 mm. negative.

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The origin of this collection is not known, but it appears to have been assembled for a travelling exhibition, and each print is marked Copy neg. Photoscale May 1965. Sources are given where known. Prints are 215 x 160 mm.

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Sheppard, Miss Ensa? Miss Brice.

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226 x 111 mm. General view of resthouse and grounds at Kuala Kubu at Bharu, about 30 miles north of Kuala Lumpur.

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205 x 95 mm.

Scope and Contents 265 x 207 mm (mounted on card). A view looking down onto the Klang River and across to Welds Hill (still at this period heavily wooded) with a sprinkling of Malay houses with atap roofs clustered around the river. The area in the foreground was later to be the site of the Government Offices and cricket ground. The view looks eastward from a point a little to the south of the confluence of the Klang and Gombah Rivers. The photograph dates from the period just after the British centre of...

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266 x 207 mm (mounted on card). A view, taken from a similar location to the preceding print, but nearer to the Klang River, looking across towards Weld's Hill, with atap houses in the foreground.

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264 x 207 mm (mounted on card). A view looking towards Welds Hill with atap houses in the foreground. A photograph probably taken from a spot near the east bank of the Klang River.

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266 x 207 mm (mounted on card). A view looking towards a street of atap houses facing onto an area of open ground. This photograph also shows part of the area which was later the site of the Government Offices and cricket ground.

Scope and Contents 265 x 207 mm (mounted on card). A view from just above the west bank looking down onto the Klang River, with the atap houses of Kuala Lumpur on the far side. Beside the road in the foreground is an open-sided atap house where a number of carpenters are planing wood to form planks. The note in Swettenham's hand on the reverse reads: 'This is the point from which, in 1882, just to the right of the picture, the road started to ascend the hill on which were the Residency and all other...

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264 x 207 mm (mounted on card). A view looking across uneven, partially cleared scrubland towards (on the left) the square, two storey wooden quarters of Captain Syers, and (on the right) the Police Barracks, a series of long single storey buildings raised on brick pillars. Gullick (1955, p. 27-28) provides a detailed description of the buildings.

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205 x 97 mm.

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289 x 232 mm. A view from the steps of the Railway Office looking across the Padang towards the Selangor club, with rickshaws and bullock cards in the flooded roadway in the foreground. A note on the back of the print states that the water rose over a foot after this photograph was taken.

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155 x 112 mm. A view looking eastwards from the Police Barracks towards Weld Hill. The town, which lies in the intervening valley, is largely obscured by vegetation in the foreground, although the tower of the Government Offices can be seen at the right.

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205 x 108 mm.

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152 x 111 mm. glossy print with two copies.

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206 x 89 mm. View of the ornamental garden near the Residency.

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206 x 87 mm. View looking across the public gardens towards the club premises. The Lake Club was founded in 1891.

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206 x 90 mm. View of the Carcosa from the ornamental gardens.