View from the road looking towards the small two storey hotel, with figures posed at the gateway and wooded hillside in the background. Penang was visited by the compiler of this album between 25th and 26th January, 1879
Java. Painting Sarongs. Photographer: Woodbury and Page
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Men and women at work in the roadway in front of a house. 'Production of kain batik on K. F.Holle's plantation Waspada near Garut. Traditionally the wax design was carefully applied to the cloth by female workers with a specially designed pen.' (Steven Wachlin, Woodbury and Page (KITLV Press, L...
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.
Execution at Batavia [Jakarta]. Photographer: Woodbury and Page
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'Execution of the eight so-called Tambun murderers in Bekasi on 24 August 1870. These men were sentenced to death for the murder of a number of people, among them the Assistant-Resident of Meester Cornelis, now Jatinegara, E. R. J. C.de Kuijper, on 2 April 1869. Although the attempt at rebellion...
San Francisco. The Golden Gate, entrance to harbour. Photographer: Unknown
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General view looking towards the Golden Gate, with buildings in the foreground. Visited by the compiler of this album between 26th August and 2nd September, 1879.