This collection mainly consists of photograph albums and films compiled by the Jeans family from their time living in North Borneo (now Sabah) from 1949 to 1963. There is also one earlier album of family photographs compiled by Margaret Payne before she married, dating from 1938. From 1934 to 1949, she lived in the UK and worked as a nurse through WW2.
There are 4 films, 9 photograph albums plus loose photographs, negatives, and some printed material in the collection which show mainly family and local life during that period. Some of the items relate to Clifford Jeans' role in the Public Works Department.
This catalogue was produced with support from the National Cataloguing Grants Programme for Archives
In 1949, Margaret, the daughter of Howard and Alice Payne (see 2002/027), married Clifford Jeans who was the government civil engineer in the Public Works department, overseeing post-war development in North Borneo (Sabah). He was stationed variously at Jesselton, Sandakan and Labuan.
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