Scope and Contents This broad heading has been used to cover a substantial collection of loose prints, dating chiefly from the period 1960-1982, but including a few of earlier date. The majority come from the files of the RCS journal known successfully as ‘United Empire,’ ‘Commonwealth Journal,’ and ‘Commonwealth,’ in which some were published, but there are also items obtained for inclusion in the exhibition ‘Commonwealth in Focus’ in 1982 and these are indicated by CIF and the catalogue number in the...

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Landscape format.

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Collection of coloured and captioned slides.

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160 x 215 mm. Head and shoulders portrait in European clothes of Omar Ali Saifuddin, Sultan of Brunei from 1950 until his abdication in favour of his son in 1967.

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Scope and Contents A collection of prints produced by the Central Office of Information. The prints measure approximately 165 x 115 mm and have typewritten captions pasted onto the reverse. A sheet of paper with the prints gives the title: 'Progress in the Colonies. Rejected photographs'. This selection appears to be part of a larger series of prints -the captions are often numbered and frequently make references to 'Feature Sets'. The photographs illustrate post-war developments in agriculture,...

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Landscape format. [Showing thatched building on jetty in bay with trees and palms coming down to waters edge].

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241 x 203 mm. Sir Alec Douglas-Home, the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary, is pictured with the ruler of Brunei, North Borneo, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’ izzudin Waddaulah (left), and the Sultan’s father, the Seri Bagawan, Sir Muda Omar Ali Saifuddin, at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Whitehall.

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192 x 200 mm. General view looking across the artificial lake towards the modern mosque.

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147 x 103 mm. A view looking across the Brunei River towards the complex of thatched buildings on piles at the water’s edge.

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272 x 206 mm. Showing a number of thatched houses raised on piles and connected by walkways. Photographer unknown, probably G.R. Lambert and Co.

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271 x 203 mm. View from a hillside looking down onto the town of Brunei which consists of thatched houses built on piles on the mudbanks of the Brunei River. Photographer unknown, probably G.R. Lambert and Co.

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Half-plate (landscape format). A village of brass workers. [Houses on stilts above the water with palm trees on the banks].