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1. Photo 1183(20)

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Photo 1183(20)
Title:
[Unidentified mosque, Java.] Photographer: Woodbury and Page
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Numbered '59' in pencil on mount. Genre: Architectural Photography View from the roadway, looking towards an unidentified mosque, with characteristic triple-tiered pyramidal roof over the prayer hall; with Javanese figures grouped in the foreground in front of the gateway.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 1183(1)

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Photo 1183(1)
Title:
Docks, Batavia. Photographer: Woodbury and Page
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking in a north-easterly direction across the Haven Kanaal towards the sea in the distance, with customs and port administration buildings on the right-hand side. In the centre foreground is the Pasar Ikan (Fish Market) building, with the Vierkanst...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Mid-1860s
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1183(26)

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Photo 1183(26)
Title:
[Marketplace at Garut.] Photographer: Woodbury and Page
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Numbered '20' in pencil on mount. Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View from the street of shops selling fruit and other produce at Garut. Location identified in Steven Wachlin, 'Woodbury and Page: Photographers Java' (KITLV Press, Leiden, 1994), where this photograph is rep...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 1183(57)

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Photo 1183(57)
Title:
Interior, Chinese church, Sumatra. Photographer: Woodbury and Page
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Interior view looking towards the altar, of the kelenteng or Chinese temple, known by the name of See Him Kiong, at Padang, Sumatra. Identification of location from Steven Wachlin, 'Woodbury and Page: Photographers Java' (KITLV Press, Leiden, 1994), where this p...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 1183(5)

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Photo 1183(5)
Title:
[Chinese house on Molenvliet West, Batavia (Jakarta)]. Photographer: Woodbury and Page
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Numbered '16' in pencil on mount. Genre: Architectural Photography General view of a substantial Chinese house located near the northern end of Molevliet West (Jalan Gajah Mada), with figures seated on the verandah. Part of the building still survived (in 2000), as part of a new d...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 1183(12)

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Photo 1183(12)
Title:
[Raden Saleh's house, Batavia (Jakarta)]. Photographer: Woodbury and Page
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Numbered '30' in pencil on mount. Genre: Architectural Photography General view from the garden of the gothic style mansion of the Javanese artist Raden Saleh. For a history of the building, which still stands (although much changed), see Scott Merrillees, 'Batavia in nineteenth c...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1860-1867
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 1183(55)

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Photo 1183(55)
Title:
[Village scene with buffalo carts, Java.] Photographer: Woodbury and Page
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Numbered '38' in pencil on mount. Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along a village street, lined with thatched houses, with a group of carts drawn by water buffalo posed in the foreground. The carts are of rattan construction in the form of small houses. Precise location ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 1183(3)

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Photo 1183(3)
Title:
[Hotel des Indes, Batavia (Jakarta)] Photographer: Woodbury and Page
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Numbered '5' in pencil on mount. Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking across the square towards the facade of the Hotel des Indes, with an unidentified circular domed building (possibly an icehouse?) on the left. Also reproduced in Scott Merrillees, 'Batavia in nine...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 1183(23)

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Photo 1183(23)
Title:
[The Buddhist stupa at Borobudur.] Photographer: Woodbury and Page
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Numbered '9' in pencil on mount. Genre: Archaeological Photography View looking along a tree-lined avenue towards a corner of the Buddhist stupa at Borobudur, with European figures posed on the pathway.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 1860s
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 1183(31)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1183(31)
Title:
[Coffee plantation, possibly at Sukabumi.] Photographer: Woodbury and Page
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Numbered '19' in pencil on mount. Genre: Industrial Photography View looking towards a compound of bungalows on a coffee plantation, with a European overseer and Javanese labourers at work in the drying ground. Possibly taken at the same location as print 30, viz. Sukabumi.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item