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This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue V, May 2016 Normal version • Single page version

Netherlands report

Colonial images; Coutinho collection; Open Cultural Data; Netherlands and the world; NL Art History challenge

By Hansmuller, 85jesse, Elisabethwiessner & Jane023

Colonial images donated by Leiden University Library / Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies

In 2016, Leiden University Library and Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) donated 3114 high resolution mainly nineteenth and early twentiest century photographs and works of art to Wikimedia Commons in a partnership with Wikimedia. The 2805 photographs show Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, China, and Suriname. The 309 artworks depict people, landscapes, plantations, plants and butterflies of Suriname and landscapes of Indonesia.

This donation is a sequel to their 2015 donation of 2418 colonial photographs, mainly of Indonesia and India.

Leiden University Library, which presently manages the source image database media-kitlv.nl, has made this donation possible in practice. The uploads were performed by Hans Muller using the GLAMwiki Toolset software.

Please put your cursor over an image to view the caption

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  Mandarins in a boat, China, 1604. Baptista van Doetechum
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  "Observatoire de Peking", 1736. J. van der Spyk
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  Jade Girl Peak, Nine Bend River, Wuyi Mountains, circa 1871
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  Chinese money changers, probably in China, circa 1900
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  Mount Merapi (Gunung Merapi), Java. Franz Junghuhn and C.W. Mieling, 1853-1854
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  Collecting birds' nests east of Rankop, Java. Franz Junghuhn and C.W. Mieling, circa 1855
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  Teukoe with bride, Aceh, circa 1880
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  Burning of natural gases at an oil drilling site, presumably at Pangkalan Brandan, East Coast of Sumatra, circa 1905. C.J. Kleingrothe
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  Ox carts, Bamboo Avenue, Belawan company, Deli, Sumatra, 1905. C.J. Kleingrothe
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  Lake Toba, Haranggaul, Sumatra, circa 1905. C.J. Kleingrothe
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  Post and telegraph office, Medan, Sumatra, circa 1905. C.J. Kleingrothe
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  Tobacco plant and leaf, Deli, Sumatra, circa 1905. C.J. Kleingrothe
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  Victoria Theatre and Memorial Hall, Singapore, circa 1900
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  Chinese locksmith in Singapore, circa 1900. Lambert & Co., G.R.
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  Photographer Julius E. Muller, Paramaribo, circa 1885
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  Steenbakkerijstraat, Paramaribo, circa 1899
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  Butterfly orange Markée Surinam c. 1763
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  "Plantation niggers", Bray & Petit, Surinam 1850