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Vrouwen op het strand. Women on the beac

Women on the beach

Photographer Onnes Kurkdjian ca. 1912

A relaxing moment on the beach in the twilight.

Javaanse prinsjes en prinses. Javanese r

Javanese royal children

Photographer Kassian Cephas, photo taken in 1870

Princes and princess of the Kraton

(the Sultan"s palace) in Yogyakarta

Lake Bagendit

Photographer Onnes Kurkdjian photo taken in 1902

Even today, exactly the same boats are used to enjoy a picnic on a day off. Only now it is the Indonesians who enjoy such a boatride. Lake Bagendit is located east of Bandung.

Goat wagon

Photographer unknown, photo taken ca. 1916

A happy moment. The goat wagon is probably new and the employee in his neat ''djas toetoep'' (high-necked white jacket) and the child seem very happy.

Hotel des Indes origineel voor website.j

Hotel des Indes 1910

Photographer unknown.

The hotel had a good reputation with international travelers visiting The Dutch East Indies. The well-known anthropologist and biologist Thomas Russell Wallace stayed there in 1869 and was excited. The rice table was famous in Hotel des Indes.

Automobiel Jacob Nienhuys tabaksplanter.

Automobile Jacob Nienhuys

Photographer and year unknown.

Group portrait with planters, including Jacob Nienhuys, at the Tandjong Morawa tobacco plantation of the Senembah Maatschappij

Jacob Nienhuys (1836-1927) was the first Dutch tobacco planter in the former Dutch East Indies where he arrived in 1863. In 1869 he was the founder of the Deli Maatschappij and the Dutch tobacco culture on Sumatra's East Coast.

Six little friends

Photographer and year unknown

Java.

The flag

Photographer and year unknown

That Dutch flag on a tropical island……. . The man in the middle sitting on a chair is probably a local senior official. This photo was taken on the island Alor located east of the island Flores.

Hunters from Alor

photographer unknown, ca. 1895

Hunters armed with arrows and bows. The island Alor is located east of the island Flores.

2 jonge jagers, Kalimantan. 2 Young hunt

Two young hunters, Kalimantan.

Photographer unknown ca. 1910

Two boys from the Embalu-Dajak, Kalimantan (Borneo), The tallest boy would later join an expedition to

West-Papua

Volcano by a lake

Photographer Onnes Kurkdjian ca. 1910

At dawn, young girls do their laundry in a lake with a volcano in the background.

Fruitverkoper en nyonya. Fruit seller an

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Fruit seller and Nyonya. (Mrs.)

Photographer unknown, Buitenzorg (Bogor)

ca. 1915

A daily scene in colonial times. Nyonya wears a sarong and kebaya (long skirt and a women's long-sleeved blouse.)

Hotel der Nederlanden (Hotel of the Netherlands)

Photographer and year unknown

Batavia (nowadays Jakarta) In 1794 bought Pieter Tenzy a piece of land and built his house. In the period 1811-1815 it became the residence of Lieutenant Governor General Thomas Stamford Raffles, the founder of Singapore. After various name changes and renovations, it was called Hotel der Nederlanden, which was demolished in 1969

Het restaurant. The reastaurant. origina

The restaurant of the Hotel der Nederlanden Photographer and year unknown.

2 men dining and 14 people serving the rice table.

In 1906, the Dutch architect Pieter Moojen designed, including the interior, the dining room with more than 200 seats. In addition to the normal hotel facilities, the hotel organized dance and music evenings.