Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Studio portrait of a Japanese family group, the male figure clothed in formal European dress of suit and top hat, the three women in traditional dress.
Wedding festivities at Kibber, Spiti: the bridegroom garlanded with necklaces of rupees on the second night of his wedding. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
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Genre: Portrait Photography 'The bridegroom garlanded with necklaces of rupees on the second night of his wedding. Traditionally, some time after the first son gets married, he is given all the land and the family house. His father and mother eventually retire to another house or to an annexe o...
Baden Saleb [Raden Saleh]. Photographer: Woodbury and Page
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Inscription: Numbered '28' in pencil on mount. Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait of the Javanese artist Raden Saleh (1807-1880), wearing an elaborate uniform and seated at a table with an open book. For another similar portrait of Raden Saleh, probably taken on the same occasion...
Regent's family, Koevres [Bupati of Kudus and family]. Photographer: Woodbury and Page
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Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait, with the Bupati of Kudus, Raden Mas Tuemggung Candranegara, also known as Purwalelana, standing centre, with other members of his family. Information from Steven Wachlin, 'Woodbury and Page: Photographers Java' (KITLV Press, Leiden, 1994), where this ...