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...
[Palace of the Governor-General, Buitenzorg, now the Presidential Palace, Bogor.] Photographer: Woodbury and Page
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Inscription: Numbered '31' in pencil on mount. Genre: Architectural Photography General view from the gardens of the Governor-General's residence, built between 1750 and 1761 and subsequently enlarged several times.
[Hotel des Indes, Batavia (Jakarta)] Photographer: Woodbury and Page
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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...
[Resident of Batavia's House, Batavia (Jakarta)]. Photographer: Woodbury and Page
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Inscription: Numbered '18' in pencil on mount. Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the handsome verandahed bungalow of the Dutch Resident at Batavia, which still stands today at 8 Jalan Medan Merdeka Selatan (previously Koningsplain Zuid). From 1945-54 it was the occupied by ...
[Chinese house on Molenvliet West, Batavia (Jakarta)]. Photographer: Woodbury and Page
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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...
[House of Major China Tan Tjong Hoay at Gedung Gula in Semarang.] Photographer: Woodbury and Page
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Inscription: Numbered '42' in pencil on mount. Genre: Architectural Photography General view from the street of the large, two storey Chinese house, built around 1815, with figures seated on the verandah. Identification from Steven Wachlin, 'Woodbury and Page: Photographers Java' (KITLV Press,...
[Raden Saleh's house, Batavia (Jakarta)]. Photographer: Woodbury and Page
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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...
