Resource: The Dutch East Indies in Photographs, 1860 - 1940

Note: Posted to H-ASIA on September 8, 2008

WWW Resource: The Dutch East Indies in photographs, 1860-1940
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From: Reviews of Internet resources for Asian Studies <asia-www-monitor@anu.edu.au>

The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: Sep 2008, Vol. 15, No. 10 (284)
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08 Sep 2008

The Dutch East Indies in photographs, 1860-1940
Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (KITLV), Leiden, The Netherlands.

Self-description:
"The years around 1900 marked the heyday of Dutch colonial rule in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). Territories outside Java were brought under Dutch rule and the economy was thoroughly modernized.
Thought was also given to the future of the indigenous population and its impact on the relations between the Dutch and the native people.
The collection consists of some 3000 photographs from the period between 1860 and 1940. Most of them were taken by professional photographers who took pictures of landscapes and street life, in addition to photographing houses and factories and taking portrait and group photos. Some of them even took to the road to record all the facets of the Dutch East Indies."

Site contents:
* Intro; * How to search; * Historical background; * About the collection; * KITLV; * Bibliography; * Colophon; * Search in collection; * Browse collection (by photographer, by location).
[At the time of this abstract the search & browse functions of the web site were behaving in a very erratic manner - ed.]

URL : http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/?/en/collecties/nederlands-indie_in_fotos,_1860-1940

Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]

Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available, potentially a V.Useful site.
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30
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