Full-length studio portrait group of men, women and childdren seated at table for a meal. With contemporary printed descriptive label: 'No. 38. - A Chow-Chow Party. Here we have a group singularly well employed. We introduce it as a further illustration of the ordinary dress of the working clas...
Batavia [Jakarta]. India Rubber Tree. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Close view of a tree with aerial roots and stems reaching out. Thatched houses on the left and right side of the image. Batavia (Jakarta) was visited by the compiler of this album between 3rd and 5th February 1879.
Java. Carlos Hotel, Britenzorg [Buitenzorg]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
General view of driveway, with houses and buffalo-drawn carriages on the left and a mountain in the background. Buitenzorg was visited by the compiler of this album between 5th and 7th February, 1879.
Java. Road to Sindaliya [Sunda]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
View of a road emerging diagonally from left to right from a covered bridge, thatched huts on either side. Visited by the compiler of this album between 5th and 7th February, 1879.
Numbered 670 in the negative. Full-length standing portrait of the Empress, in traditional dress. An uncoloured version of this portrait appears in Anne Wilkes Tucker (et al), The History of Japanese Photography (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2003), p. 55.