In 1953, Loke Wan Tho accompanied Sir Anthony Foster Abell, third Governor of Sarawak, on a tour of the colony, calling on community leaders and penghulu of rural longhouses.
The ISEAS Library collection includes Southeast Asian cookbooks and recipes. Some of the older publications among these are Indonesian recipe books dating from the 1950s, available in print and microfiche format.
Malay vocabulary books gained popularity in the 17th and 18th centuries when the Europeans intensified their study of the language to facilitate trade and other interactions with people in the region.
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Houses in Southeast Asia were steeped in local tradition and meaning. The Dorothy Pelzer collection of photos records her exploration of the interplay of culture and house forms across Southeast Asia in the 1960s to 1970s.
ISEAS Library holds a range of historical Southeast Asian newspapers of various languages in its microfilm collection.
The ISEAS Library is home to several private papers of prominent personalities and one of them is Tun Sir Henry H.S. Lee (Lee Hau Shik), who was a politician and a banker.
Between 1980 and 1981, Cecilia Ng travelled to Minangkabau in West Sumatra, Indonesia to document the textiles and ceremonial costumes of the Minangkabau people.