Sumatra's Westkust.

£650 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Christiaan Benjamin Nieuwenhuis (died 1922) came to Batavia as a member of the Dutch East-Indian Armed Forces. In Batavia he took up photography and opened his own studio in 1892 in Padang. The present two albums show the towns, landscape and infrastructure along the west-coast of Sumatra. They also include numerous plates of the local population and their culture.

• Year: 1910

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