| Title |
Volume XVIII : Singapore and Borneo, December 1908-January 1909 |
| Reference |
Fisher 18 |
| Creator |
Fisher, Alfred Hugh, 1867-1945 |
| Covering Dates |
Dec. 1908-Jan. 1909 |
| Extent and Medium |
88 images in 1 envelope; The album has been badly affected by mould and loss of print surface in about half the photographs. After copying all legible descriptions, it was discarded and photographs retaining significant amount of detail kept though some have been trimmed. |
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| Content and context |
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The envelope contains photographs numbered in the range 4152-4310 (originally there were 150 in the album). Added numbers are: 4201A and 4284A; spoiled: 4190; not used: 4162, 4179, 4180, 4187, 4191, 4223-4225, 4239, 4281, 4304; missing 4156, 4160, 4166, 4197, 4198, 4245, 4247, 4252, 4257, 4288, 4294; discarded (because of water damage): 4151, 4173, 4182, 4184, 4189, 4194-4196, 4201A, 4202-4203, 4206-4208, 4211-4212, 4216-4217, 4219, 4221, 4226-4228, 4332, 4334-4336, 4241-4242, 4226, 4268, 4270, 4271, 4274, 4276, 4279, 4283-4284, 4287, 4296, 4301, 4303, 4308, 4311.
Subjects covered in the album are:
Singapore: general, schools and reformatory, Botanical Gardens, pineapple tinning, rubber, 'Victoria Regia' water lily;
Labuan;
Brunei;
North Borneo: sea voyage and Jesselton, sports at Jesselton, Usukan Bay, rail journey to Tenam.
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| Further information |
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Indexed
This envelope is available on microfiche: General Collections, fiche numbers 104-105.
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| Index Terms |
| Asia |
| Borneo |
| East Malaysia |
| Malay Archipelago |
| Singapore |
| Fisher, Alfred Hugh (1867-1945) |
| RCS/Fisher 18 contains: |
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4152
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Singapore : Courtyard of Hotel de l'Europe. Lighthouse seen on hill at the back. [Background too faded to see hill]. |
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4153
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View from the Singapore Club of Collyer Quay. Landscape format. To the left is seen the commencement of the new sea wall. [View along street with rickshaws, with houses and shops on the right and harbour with small boats on the left].
Faded.. |
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4154
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The Old Harbour : Singapore, from the Singapore Club. Landscape format. In distance Pulan ( = island) Bentan, a Dutch possession. [Harbour with rowing boats, steam launches and ships, and covered quay on the right].
Faded.. |
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4155
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View from Clock Tower, Victoria Memorial, Singapore. Landscape format. Fort Canning with lighthouse / Govt House / Museum / Hotel de L' Europe. (Fisher). |
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4156
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[No print]. Missing. View from the Clock Tower, Victoria Memorial, Singapore. The trees on the right are Angsena, planted about 1892. All this is disclaimed. |
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4157
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View from the Clock Tower, Victoria Memorial, Singapore. Landscape format. The nearer end is the Singapore Cricket Ground with pavilion : at distant end is the Eurasian Recreation Club : on the left is St Andrew's Cathedral.
Slightly faded.. |
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4158
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View from the Clock Tower : Victoria Memorial. Landscape format. Looking nearly due south. Dutch Island in the distance. Looking nearly due south / The Master Attendants Office (Harbour Master) / Post Office / Club. In the distance is the Dutch Island : the ornate building on the right of roadway is the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank. (Fisher).
Slightly faded.. |
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4159
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Towards the R.A. are stationed. On this side of the water is Mount Parma - wooded. Landscape format. In foreground is Singapore River - nearly all Chinese boats.
Slightly faded.. |
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4160
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[No print. Missing]. Bullock cart and house in suburbs of Singapore : palms called. |
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4161
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A residence near the Botanical Gardens, Singapore. [View from lawns with steps up to the house up grassed slope]. |
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4163
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Rochor Girls School. Landscape format. A girls school (Gov.) in Singapore : sewing class for bigger girls.
Faded.. |
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4164
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Rochor Girls School. Landscape format. Teacher (black lace over her head) is a young Malay.
Faded.. |
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4165
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Same school [Rochor Girls School]. Landscape format. To the right a child named Johara is daughter of the Datoh of Ramban : her grandmother was a Chinese : she wears a necklace of old Turkish coins. |
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4166
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[No print]. Missing. Same school [Rochor Girls School]. Same school, names of front figures: Wong Chi Binti Radin Yakob / Sapieh Binti Seleman / Miriam Binti Gani / Patima Binti Hagi Yahyah : on necklace a charm : a verse from Koran / Munah Binti Haji Sarat / Miriam Binti Haji Kassim. The word Binti means daughter of. (Fisher). |
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4167
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A Malay Boys School. The largest Malay vernacular school. (Govt.) Infant Class.
Faded.. |
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4168
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The Malay Boys School. In the playground.
Surface damaged.. |
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4169
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The Malay Boys School. In the playground.
Faded.. |
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4170
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Nearly all white of light pink and purple jackets. Skirts crimson, orange, green, and other bright colours, but not any ochre yellow or pure blue. Mostly Malays, but some Javanese. [In the playground, similar to 4168 with trees and buildings in the background]. |
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4171
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At the school gates. Tuck shop rice in leaf packets : cucumbers : hard eggs, bean cakes, pineapples, sweet potatoes. [Jolly faces around the tuck shop, wearing hats without rims].
Slightly faded.. |
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4172
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The Botanical Gardens, Singapore. Half-plate (landscape format). [Man standing among different types of palms].
Slightly faded.. |
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4174
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The Botanical Gardens, Singapore. [Trimmed]. [Similar to 4172]. |
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4175
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Botanical Gardens, Singapore. Half-plate. Botan. Gardens, Singapore Kitool palms - Caryota urens - Malay and India. / Pychosperma McArthuri (Australia) / Kitool / Kitool. [Man standing beside one of the tall palms.
Surface damaged.. |
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4176
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Fig tree on lake. Half-plate. With Birdsnest Fern, Botanical Gardens : Singapore. |
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4177
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Tank Road Railway Station : Singapore. [Train at the platform, which has plants in tubs beside the station buildings]. |
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4178
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Pineapple plantation and tall trees near Bukitemah, Singapore. |
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4181
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Shoemaking in the Reformatory. Half-plate (trimmed). Chinese instructor and English Superintendent.
Surface damaged.. |
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4183
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[Drill at the Reformatory]. Half-plate (landscape format). |
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4185
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Methodist School for Native Children, Singapore. Landscape format.
Slightly faded.. |
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4188
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Cross Street School. Landscape format. [Children walking with their hands behind their backs beside wrought-iron fence with buildings beyond across the street].
Blurred.. |
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4192
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Cross Street School. Half-plate. Chinese children fan drill.
Slightly faded.. |
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4193
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Prize Day Song The Cross Street Corps. Half-plate. [Row of five little boys with drums and bugles watched by people on the steps behind].
Slightly faded.. |
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4197
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[No print]. Missing. Singapore : the river. Barges bringing goods from the steamers. |
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4198
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[No print]. Missing. Singapore : the river. Barges bringing goods from the steamers. |
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4199
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Weighing rice. Boat Quay : Singapore.
Blurred and technically poor.. |
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4200
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View from Boat Quay, Singapore. [View across Chinese boats]. |
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4201
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The North Bridge, Singapore. From Boat Quay.
Blurred.. |
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4204
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Seah eng Kiongs Pineapple Tinning Factory at Bendemeer, Singapore. Half-plate. [A street factory with pineapples on table ready to be tinned and pineapple skins on floor.]. |
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4205
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Seah eng Kiongs Pineapple Tinning Factory at Bendemeer, Singapore. Half-plate. [Similar view to 4204 but with prepared pineapples being carried in by two men in a basket on a pole]. |
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4209
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Collecting latex. Half-plate. [Three workers collecting latex while man in boater hat supervises.]. |
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4210
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Tapping rubber : Chain-Gamma system. Half-plate. [System] invented by Mr C. Bolden Kloss, and considered to get best flow of latex. [Similar to 4209 but more to the left of it]. |
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4213
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Victoria Regia in Chinese gentlemans garden, Singapore. [Showing pond with large water lily leaves and a man standing on the far side of the pond]. |
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4214
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Victoria Regia in Chinese gentlemans garden, Singapore. Half-plate. [Showing pond with large water lily leaves]. |
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4218
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The approach to Government House. Half-plate. Traveller tree (fan shaped palm). |
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4220
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View of Singapore. Including Victoria Memorial Building : view from harbour taken on the way to the N.D.L. steamer in the roads.
Technically poor.. |
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4222
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View of Singapore. Landscape format. Including Victoria Memorial Building : view from harbour taken on the way to the N.D.L. steamer in the roads.
Technically poor.. |
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4229
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Fishing screens on the Brunei River - Keelong in Malay. Landscape format. [Distant view of screens among trees]. |
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4230
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Fishing screens on the Brunei River - Keelong in Malay. Landscape format. [Distant view of screens among trees]. |
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4231
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On the Brunei River. Landscape format.
Technically poor.. |
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4233
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Native boats up the Brunei River. Landscape format. |
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4237
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Still higher up the Brunei River. Landscape format. [Showing thatched building on jetty in bay with trees and palms coming down to waters edge]. |
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4238
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Brunei from the water. Landscape format. On the left a cutch factory - extracting a tannin from Bakau bark - used for tanning leather (see Sandakan cutch factory for other kind of cutch). |
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4240
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Brunei : part of the city. Landscape format. Dug-out canoe in the foreground. [Showing thatched huts on stilts beside the water].
Surface damaged.. |
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4243
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A market at Brunei. Landscape format. Market boats on the water. [Hut on stilts in the water too]. |
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4244
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Brunei. Landscape format. Note fishing screen : market boats : in distance Sultans Palace, and on left palace of one of the two regents.
Surface damaged.. |
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4245
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Brunei : entrance to main street. Half-plate (landscape format). [Street being waterfront to houses on stilts with boats moored outside]. |
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4246
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[No print]. Missing. In the main street : Brunei. |
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4247
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[No print]. Missing. In the main street : Brunei. |
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4250
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General view of Brunei Town. Half-plate (landscape format). Trimmed. In far distance district (wettest in Brunei territory). [View of town on stilts]. Small-leaved Belunu and large-leaved Membagan trees in foreground.
Surface damaged and faded.. |
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4251
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General view of Brunei Town. Half-plate (landscape format). Trimmed. [Similar to 4250].
Surface damaged and faded.. |
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4252
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[No print]. Missing. General view of Brunei Town. |
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4255
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A street in Brunei. Half-plate. [Children standing about on the roads - logs on stilts linking the houses]. |
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4256
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View on the Sembiling River near Brunei. Half-plate (landscape format). A village of brass workers. [Houses on stilts above the water with palm trees on the banks]. |
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4259
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[Chinese coolies on board N.D.L steamer Marudu on the way to Sandakan]. Landscape format. [Showing coolies sitting about on the steamer with their baskets]. |
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4260
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A pakarangan or long native boat which carries a sail 18 feet square, on board the Marudu. Landscape format. [Picture printed in reverse - 1070 on end of pakarangan. Barrels along side of steamer].
Water stained.. |
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4261
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[View on deck of steamer showing pakarangan].
Surface damaged.. |
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4262
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Jesselton. Landscape format. [Showing Rest House in open water]. |
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4265
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View from front of Rest House Jesselton. Half-plate. [View over path in grass to railway line with houses and trees beyond].
Surface damaged.. |
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4267
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Native women : Jesselton. Landscape format. [Sitting on edge of the road, some under umbrella]. |
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4269
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[Boys of the Roman Catholic School for Boys : Jesselton]. Same boys racing in flat race. Jesselton Sports, 1 Jan 1909.
Surface damaged and water stained.. |
1 Jan. 1909 |
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4272
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[Jesselton Sports 1 Jan 1909]. Police (mostly Sikhs and Pathans) looking on. Half-plate. |
1 Jan. 1909 |
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4273
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[Jesselton Sports 1 Jan 1909] . The high jump. Landscape format. |
1 Jan. 1909 |
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4275
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[Jesselton Sports 1 Jan 1909]. The high jump. Landscape format. Note Roman Catholic Archbishop - red sash on white dress. [Archbishop also carries parasol].
Surface damaged.. |
1 Jan. 1909 |
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4277
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[Jesselton Sports 1 Jan 1909]. The finish of the 1/4 mile. Landscape format. Trimmed. Makaralli, a Pathan, winning. |
1 Jan. 1909 |
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4278
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[Jesselton Sports 1 Jan 1909]. The long jump. Landscape format. [Governors house on hill behind]. |
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4280
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[Jesselton Sports 1 Jan 1909]. Sack race. Landscape format. [Near the finish].
Slightly water stained.. |
1 Jan. 1909 |
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4282
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Mt Kinabalu form the sea opposite Tuaran. Landscape format.
Water stained and surface damaged.. |
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4284A
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Usukan Bay from pier looking east. Half-plate. Men bathing. |
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4285
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The mouth of the river Abai. Half-plate. Looking towards the sea. North of Usukan Bay in the West Coast Residence. Immediately in the foreground is a characteristic piece of swamp : alluvial deposit brought down by the river, covered with tropical jungle, and often stretching for miles on each side. Quite typical Borneo scene. |
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4288
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Half-plate. [No print]. Missing. Mount Kinebalu from a hill at Usukan : Abai River in foreground. |
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4289
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Mt Kinabalu from Usukan. Landscape format. Abai River in foreground. [Trees on both sides of the river]. |
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4290
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Salat. Landscape format. A tiny island off Mantanani, west coast B.N.B [i.e. British North Borneo]. [Island covered with trees]. |
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4291
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Mantanani. Landscape format. About $1500 ($ = 2s/4d) worth of birdsnests (edible) are collected and exported annually from this island : it is about 3 hours sail from Usukan Bay. |
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4292
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Footprints in the sand on Mantanani Island. Landscape format. [Showing footprints with the sea beyond].
Faded and water stained.. |
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4293
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The Petrel. Landscape format. Govt yacht : in front of Mt Kinabalu. [Mt Kinabalu not visible].
Faded and surface damage.. |
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4294
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[No print]. Missing. Rahaman : captain of the Petrel. Son of a Brunei mother and a Sarawak father - a typical bajan or coast man of Borneo. |
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4295
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Mt Kinabalu from Government House, Jesselton : 6.30 am. Landscape format. [Misty scene over the wooded hills].
Water stained.. |
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4297
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Bullocks with road roller : Jesselton. Landscape format. [Four bullocks pulling roller]. |
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4299
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The train near Kawong. [Looking back along the train].
Blurred.. |
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4300
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Pengalat Cutting. [Single track railway line through cutting in rock. Man walking along ahead]. |
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4302
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Pengalat Tunnel from the south. [Showing single line going down into the tunnel]. |
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4305
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Hakka women (Chinese gardeners) selling fruit and vegetables to people on the train at Papar. Landscape format.
Slightly faded.. |
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4306
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Group of Mooruts from Tomani at Kampong Binau [i.e. Binai ?]. Landscape format. Kampong means village. [Group of nine, some blurred]. |
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4307
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Canoe of Mooruts on the river at Kampong Binai near Tenam. Landscape format. [Canoe with six paddling and one man standing looking towards the land]. |
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4309
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Native sports at Kampong Binae [i.e. Binai ?] (5 Jan 1909). Landscape format. Trimmed. To which natives from further up country came. Raft race: Ulu Mouruts.
Surface damaged.. |
5 Jan 1909 |
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4310
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Raft race : Ulu Mouruts. Landscape format. [Spectators on the bank with rafters on the water and three rafting in the distance].
Slightly faded.. |
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