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1. Photo 1158

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1158
Title:
Vues de Java. Photographiés de Woodbury et Page. Photographer(s): Woodbury and Page
Scope & Content:
Oblong folio album, quarter leather and maroon pebbled cloth boards with rules in blind, marbled endpapers, titled in gilt on spine, measuring 317 x 450 mm and containing 26 albumen prints, guard-mounted one to a page (recto only), with titles written in a neat cursive hand in French beneath eac...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s-1870s
Extent:
26 items

2. Photo 1158(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1158(1)
Title:
La Rade de Batavia. Photographer: Woodbury and Page.
Scope & Content:
View looking along the Haven Kanaal towards the roadstead in the distance. In the right foreground is the Pasar Ikan (Fish Market), with the Vierkantsbrug (Square Bridge) to the left.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1158(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1158(2)
Title:
La Tour des Signaux à Batavia. Photographer: Woodbury and Page.
Scope & Content:
View looking along the Ciliwung River towards the Culemborg Lookout (the tower on the right of the photograph), with old Dutch East India Company warehouses beyond.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 1860s
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 1158(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1158(3)
Title:
La Grande Douane à Batavia. Photographer: Woodbury and Page.
Scope & Content:
View from the Hoenderpasarbrug (Chicken Market Bridge), looking along the Ciliwung River towards the white, two-storeyed building of the Groote Boom, or Large Custom Post, with local craft moored along the riverbank. The tower of the Culemborg Lookout (see print 2), can just be seen in the backg...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1863
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 1158(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1158(4)
Title:
La Grande Rivière (Kali-besaar) à Batavia. Photographer: Woodbury and Page.
Scope & Content:
View along the stretch of the Ciliwung River known as the Kali Besar, lined with godowns on either side and looking towards a bridge in the distance.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 1158(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1158(5)
Title:
Porte de l'ancien Arsenal à Batavia. Photographer: Woodbury and Page.
Scope & Content:
View looking along the roadway towards the Amsterdam Poort, the southern entrance and the only surviving part of the old castle of Batavia. Reproduced in Scott Merrillees, Batavia in nineteenth century photographs (Archipelago Press, Singapore, 2000), plate 11.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Mid 1860s
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 1158(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1158(6)
Title:
L'Hotel de Ville à Batavia. Photographer: Woodbury and Page.
Scope & Content:
View of the main façade of the Stadhuis or Town Hall of Batavia, built 1707-10 and now serving as the Jakarta History Museum.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 1158(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1158(7)
Title:
Le Bazar Pisang à Batavia. Photographer: Woodbury and Page.
Scope & Content:
View looking along the façade of the premises of the merchants Van Vleuten and Cox, situated on the southern side of Pasar Pisang (Banana Market), with European and local figures posed in front of the building.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1865-1869
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 1158(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1158(8)
Title:
Le Maison de Commerce (Toko) Bahre et Kinder à Batavia. Photographer: Woodbury and Page.
Scope & Content:
View looking across the street towards the premises of the German trading firm of C. Bahre and G. Kinder, located near the southern corner of Kali Besar West and Utrechtsche Straat. A large group of European staff and locals are posed in front of the building. A very similar image, clearly taken...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1865
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 1158(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1158(9)
Title:
Habitations Chinoise[s] à Batavia. Photographer: Woodbury and Page.
Scope & Content:
View looking across a canal towards a substantial Chinese house.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item