Janus: Girl Guiding in Malaya [i.e. Malay Peninsula]

RCS contains:
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Y3031A	Photographs of Malaysia 1965
Y3031B	Photographs of Tuanku Abdul Halim, Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia
Y3031C	Lady Swettenham collection (Malaya and Jamaica)
Y3031D	Malayan Aviation photographs
Y3031E	Pudu English School
Y3031F	Girl Guiding in Malaya [i.e. Malay Peninsula]
Y3031G	Le Fevre Malayan Collection 1907-1918
Y3031H	Human sacrifice in Perak 1913
Y3031I	Charles Edwin Spooner collection, 1904-1907/09
Y3031J	Alexander Chancellor photographs
Y3031K	Drake Collection, 1959-61
See later -->

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Girl Guiding in Malaya [i.e. Malay Peninsula]

Title	Girl Guiding in Malaya [i.e. Malay Peninsula]
Reference	GBR/0115/Y3031F
Creator	Various
Covering Dates	1922–1933
Extent and Medium	5 images
Repository	Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library

Content and context

Collections of prints of various sizes.

Alexander Cavendish served in Malaya from 1901 to 1933 and became Director of Co-operatives. His wife, Mrs Jean Cavendish, had been appointed Organising Commissioner for Malaya by Lady Baden-Powell in 1920 and became Chief Commissioner in 1921, a post she held until retiring to England in 1933.

Given by Mrs Jean Cavendish in 1961.

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library, Girl Guiding in Malaya [i.e. Malay Peninsula], Y3031F

Further information

Indexed

This collection level description was entered by SG using information from the original typescript catalogue.

Index Terms

Asia

Malay Peninsula

Malaysia

RCS/Y3031F contains:

Visit of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales to Malaya. 77 x 100 mm. Chief Commissioner Mrs A. Cavendish presented to H.R.H. at Guide function in Kuala Lumpur.
Creator: Unknown.
Torn and repaired..

May 1922

1st Taiping Company Nov 11th 1922. 200 x 150 mm. Multi-racial group with Guiders identified on back.
Creator: Fuji Studio.

11 Nov. 1922

1st All Malay Brownie Pack, Kuala Lumpur April 1931. 202 x 153 mm. 'Before enrolment and not in uniform. Those at the back with the European Guiders are the Malay Teachers in the School'.
Creator: Unknown.

Apr. 1931

All Malayan Camp for PLs and 2nds Tanjong Bruas, Malacca [i.e. Melaka] May 1933. 290 x 230 mm. 'Standard carried by a Jap, 2 supporters Chinese'. This was Mrs. Cavendish's farewell to Malayan Guiding.
Creator: Keng Chin and Co.

May 1933

Malacca [i.e. Melaka] 1933. 200 x 150 mm. Group of European Guiders (some identified, including Mrs Cavendish), probably at the All Malayan Camp for PLs and 2nds.
Creator: Keng Chin and Co.

1933