[Java and Sumatra : a series of nineteen large photographs of scenery, natives, Batak buildings and villages, etc., ca. 1870]

PXD 558

fonds

ca. 1870

Graphic Materials, Photographs

421966

1 album (19 photoprints) - albumen - 34 x 47 cm.

1. Palace of Governor General of Netherlands India at Buitenzorg in Java, 39 miles from Batavia; this is in the midst of famous Botanical Gardens. Victoria Regia in the Lake.
2. View of ravine at foot of Pangerango & Gedeh with covered bridge and road across near Sindang Laya in Java about 65 miles from Batavia.
3. Upper portion of road in preceding photo, nearer Sindang Laya. The Sindang Laya Sanitorium in middle background among the trees.
4. Inland lake in the interior of Sumatra, behind Deli, 3000 feet above the sea, country of the Battaks.
5. View of the Gedeh (steaming crater) and Pangerango (extinct), Java.
6. Mountain village on the high road in Java, 3500 ft above the sea.
7. Banyan tree in garden of Govr. Genl. at Buitenzorg in Java.
8. Avenue of same trees as preceding [photograph].
9. View of river and mountain (furiong [?] Salak) from back verandah of Bellevue Hotel Buitenzorg, Java.
10. Inland lake, Sumatra hill country 3000 ft above level of sea.
11. Buitenzorg, Java & Bellevue Hotel. Salak mountain 7000 ft high
12. Native huts in upland villages of Sumatra interior of Deli. Battaks still slightly given to devouring their aged friends when too old for work
13. Native boat on shore of inland lake, interior of Sumatra.
14. Sumatra upland village
15. Group of Battaks, natives of hill country in the interior of Sumatra
16. Native Chieftain's house in Battak country
17. Battak village shed [?] in course of construction
18. Hotel and Sanitorium at Sindang Laya, Java 3,500 ft above the sea, at foot of Gedeh & Pangerango Mountains .
19. Sumatran upland village - Battak

Captions written below each image
"Java Sumatra - Photographs" -- spine title
Title taken from Printed Books catalogue card

"For my dear mother [...?] Sept. 15th 1874" -- p.i
"Harvey collection. D. Harvey Westfield Aldeburgh Suffolk" -- p.i, in a different hand