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...
[Gunung Sahari Canal, Batavia (Jakarta)]. Photographer: Woodbury and Page
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Inscription: Numbered '29' in pencil on mount. Genre: Urban Topographical Photography General view along the canal. Identification and dating from Scott Merrillees, 'Batavia in nineteenth century photographs' (Archipelago Press, Singapore, 2000), where this photograph is reproduced on p. 274.