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240 x 192 mm. View looking along a tree shaded canal in Batavia, with a barge loaded with firewood in the foreground and a group of houses visible beyond the trees.

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242 x 195 mm. View looking along a canal in Batavia, with houses lining the banks and barges and other vessels moored on the left.

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273 x 212 mm. View from the junction of two unidentified streets in Batavia, with a small building in classical style with a niche containing a statue in the foreground.

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A view looking along the waterfront with a village on the shoreline. Exact location unknown.

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A view showing thatched huts among coconut palms.

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A view showing a stone cross marking the grave of an unidentified Englishman.

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A rather indistinct slide showing part of an unidentified fort presumably connected with the Dutch occupation of the island, first settled in by the Netherlands in 1609 and by 1667 completely under their control.

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A posed portrait of five men in a garden; in addition to those identified, there are two unidentified Moluccans, possibly servants.

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A view showing a long canoe paddling out to meet a small steamer to sell Dammar, a resin used in caulking ships.

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A view showing a wooden bridge over a river in Pulau Bacan. Exact location unidentified.

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A badly exposed plate of a view showing a long canoe paddling out to meet a small steamer to sell Dammar, a resin used in caulking ships.

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A view showing a curving bay with a settlement on the shore and boats in the foreground. Exact location unknown.

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A posed portrait of five men in a garden; in addition to those identified, there are two unidentified Moluccans, possibly servants.

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A posed portrait group of five men in a garden: WD and HPA stand behind the seated Sultan and beside two unidentified Moluccans, possibly servants.

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355 x 267 mm. A view of a Battak village in a jungle clearing with houses made from woven fibres, standing on stilts and with elaborately constructed pointed thatched roofs. With groups of villagers seated at the entrance to a house and in the open walled building in the centre of the print.

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354 x 267 mm. A general view of a Battak village set among palm trees, with a raised granary in the centre of the clearing.

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353 x 267 mm. Showing a group of villagers with two Battak houses in the background.

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354 x 267 mm. Showing a group of Battak women posed on a wooden platform, some holding the wooden poles used for pounding the rice, others with shallow baskets used for winnowing.

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A view showing a European with an Asian in European clothes beside him on a beach; a boat is drawn up at the waterline and a steam vessel is visible off shore. Belang-Belang is one of the Kepulauan Obi, an island group in the Northern Moluccas.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection was originally housed in seven boxes, four of which were specially made with individual slots for slides. These were numbered 3, 6, 10 and 11 and the remaining boxes were unnumbered. Presumably these formed part of a larger collection, but nothing is known of the original owner or the fate of any other boxes. For conservation reasons, the collection has since been re-boxed. The captions given are normally those which appear on the slides themselves. They have been used as...

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A view of the east shore of the island.

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A view of the east shore of the island.

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A view of the north-east of the island.

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A view of the north of the island.

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A view of the north of the island.