With contemporary printed descriptive label: 'No. 32.- Decapitation. Our artist has seized the moment when the culprit, half stupefied with opium, having been shot out of the cage or basket in which he has reached the ground, has his queue firmly grasped and pulled over his head by a man who wil...
Full-length portrait of a couple with children, seated on the steps of a house. The woman holds a basket and carries an infant on her back. On the left, a man holding a pipe is seated. With contemporary printed descriptive label, reading in part: 'No.7. - A Family Scene. The division of labour i...
Natives of Singapore. Photographer: G. R. Lambert and Company
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Full-length studio portrait of a women, standing with her left arm resting on a cushioned armchair. Photograph unsigned, but attributed to G. R. Lambert and Co.
Natives of Singapore. Photographer: G. R. Lambert and Company
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Full-length studio portrait of two Malay women. Photograph unsigned, but a similar image appears in John Falconer, A Vision of the past, a History of Early Photography in Singapore and Malaya, The Photographs of G.R.Lambert & Co., 1880-1910 (Times Edition, Singapore; 1987), p. 161.
Java. Painting Sarongs. Photographer: Woodbury and Page
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Women at work on batik pieces on the verandah of a house. 'Production of kain batik on K .F.Holle's plantation Waspada near Garut. Kain means cloth, while batik refers to a traditional technique of painting textile.' (Steven Wachlin, Woodbury and Page (KITLV Press, Leiden, 1994), p. 98). Photog...