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Photo, Print, Drawing Chinese Bride in Batavia. Chinese bruid te Batavia

About this Item

Title

  • Chinese Bride in Batavia.

Other Title

  • Chinese bruid te Batavia

Summary

  • This photograph shows a Chinese bride in Batavia (present-day Jakarta) in her wedding dress. The commercial development of Batavia under the Dutch created numerous opportunities for immigrants from China, who became a favored minority and helped to support Dutch colonial rule. While many Chinese immigrants and their descendants adopted Dutch lifestyles by the late 19th century, others continued to identify with China and maintained Chinese customs and traditional dress. The photograph was taken by the studio of Woodbury & Page, which was established in 1857 by the British photographers Walter Bentley Woodbury and James Page. The photograph is from the collections of the KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies in Leiden.

Names

  • Page, James Photographer.
  • Woodbury, Walter B. (Walter Bentley), 1834-1885 Photographer.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1870.

Headings

  • -  Indonesia--Jakarta
  • -  1870
  • -  Costumes
  • -  Weddings
  • -  Women

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 22 x 16.5 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and the Caribbean Studies KITLV.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021669854

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

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Chicago citation style:

Page, James Photographer, and Walter B Woodbury. Chinese Bride in Batavia. Jakarta Indonesia, 1870. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021669854/.

APA citation style:

Page, J. P. & Woodbury, W. B. (1870) Chinese Bride in Batavia. Jakarta Indonesia, 1870. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021669854/.

MLA citation style:

Page, James Photographer, and Walter B Woodbury. Chinese Bride in Batavia. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021669854/>.