970 - Malaysia - Malaysia, Singapore, and Penang (handwritten label on the cover). Folder containing 11 original photographs. Vintage. Mostly albumen prints. Mounted. (Unmarked, probably Singapore, G.R. Lambert & Co.), circa 1885. 27 x 33 cm. Mounts loose in a period cardboard folder with a handwritten label on the cover (cover slightly warped, rubbed).

Malaysia - Malaysia, Singapore, and Penang (handwritten label on the cover). Folder containing 11 original photographs. Vintage. Mostly albumen prints. Mounted. (Unmarked, probably Singapore, G.R. Lambert & Co.), circa 1885. 27 x 33 cm. Mounts loose in a period cardboard folder with a handwritten label on the cover (cover slightly warped, rubbed). Reverse side partly with handwritten captions. Includes 8 views of Penang: 1 souvenir photograph with 12 detailed views of Penang / Georgetown (English Church, Chartered Bank, Oriental Hotel, Post Office, Beach Street, Chartered Mercantile Bank, Town Hall, among others), 3 harbor views from the sea (including “Rhede”), a horse-drawn carriage with a coachman, waterfalls (2), and a landscape on the island of Penang. As well as three views of Singapore: “Government House (on Mount Caroline) from Fort Canning,” Victoria Regia in the Botanical Gardens, and the new harbor (Keppel Harbor). - Gustav Richard Lambert (February 17, 1846, Berlin – May 23, 1907, Radebeul) established a photography studio in Singapore between 1872 and 1875. Lambert and Co. were court photographers to the King of Siam, Chulalongkorn, and the Sultan of Johor. - Cardboard is mostly slightly stained. - Provenance: Austrian Geographical Society in Vienna.