A leather-bound album containing 33 captioned photographic prints relating to the ships (named) that serviced the BISN Co routes from India to China, Japan and Malay States. The album is a mixture of interior views of the ships that covered the separate routes, and views of the main places where the ships call in.

Plates listed below with their original captions:

Front page is a copy of the Direct Mail Services publicity information regarding the Calcutta-Rangoon and Rangoon-Madras services.

1. [Image missing] RMS Egra (1911)
2. Aerial view of Calcutta showing the Government House and the river.
3. RMS Ellenga (1911) – First Saloon Reading Room.
4. Calcutta – The Victoria Memorial
5. RMS Ekma (1911) – First Saloon Smoking Room
6. Calcutta – Old Court House Street
7. RMS Ekma (1911) – First Saloon Dining Saloon
8. Rangoon – view of the Royal Lake and Shwe Dagon Pagoda.
9. RMS Ellenga (1911) – Fist Saloon Promenade Deck
10. Rangoon – Procession of Poogyes carrying begging bowls [passing Shwe Dagon Pagoda]

Inserted page is a copy of the sailing schedule for the Postal Contract between Calcutta/Straits and Madras/Straits, with subsidiary services between Rangoon and Penang, and Singapore and Bangkok.

11. Rangoon – The Shwe Dagon Pagoda
12. RMS Khandalla (1923) – First Saloon Cocktail Bar
13. Tavoy – Anchorage [main focus: local 12-oared rowing vessel, possibly a fishing boat]
14. Local boat at Tavoy Anchorage [main focus: view looking down upon the rowers. Note fishing gear and ropes on deck]
15. RMS Khandalla (1923) – gross tonnage 7,018 [Port bow view making smoke, underway]
16. RMS Karagola (1917) – First Saloon Music Room
17. Georgetown, Penang from the Crag
18. RMS Karoa (1915) – gross tonnage 7,009 [Port bow view]
19. Penang – Malay coastal village [Reed thatched wooden houses built on stilts in the water]
20. RMS Karagola (1917) – Promenade Deck
21. RMS Karapara (1915) – First Saloon Dining Room

Inserted page is a copy of the information for the Calcutta-Far East service (not under mail contract), connecting Calcutta to Kobe, Japan via Penang, Singapore, Hongkong and Shanghai – Rangoon, Amoy and Moji.

22. Hongkong – view from the harbour.
23. Shanghai – The Bund [view along Bund from Shanghai War Memorial of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (with dome), Shanghai Customs House (with clock tower), Sassoon House (pyramid roof), Yokohama Specie Bank (to its right)]
24. Hongkong – view from the Peak [taken late 1932 – October 1934 due to French cruiser Lamotte-Picquet at anchor with other British warships]
25. Shanghai – the Bund [view along the Bund from the intersection between the Huangpu River and Suzhou Creek looking at the above named buildings]
26. SS Talma (1923) – First Saloon Dining Saloon
27. Kyoto – Heian Shrine [taken from lakeside looking across the frozen water to the snow covered shrine]
28. SS Talma (1923) – First Saloon Music Room
29. Osaka – Dodonbari Theatre Street [view of the street-life from street level]
30. SS Talma (1923) – Promenade Deck [deck games on display]
31. Kobe – Nunobiki [view of the dam with city in the background]
32. SS Talma (1923) – First Saloon Smoking Room
33. Miyajima [view across the water towards the Mayajima Torii Gate and the temple]