Object data
paper
height 23.5 cm × width 32 cm
anonymous
Photograph of a Group of Red Cross Workers
Indonesian Archipelago, 1874
Inscriptions
- inscription, on the back: Koelies in dienst van het Roode Kruis in Neder- / landsch Indië. Januari 1874. / [further explanation in Dutch]
- inscription, on the back: Koelies engagés par l’association de la Croix Rouge / établie à Batavia. Janvier 1874. / [further explanation in French]
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1332
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Framed black-and-white photograph of a group of twenty-five men in a garden in front of a bamboo fence. They wear dark uniforms and broad, white hats. Some of their tools, including a stretcher, lie before them in the grass.
This group was formed by the Red Cross, financed by the Dutch state, for the second expedition in Aceh in 1874. The text on the back explains their uniform, pay and duties.
Literature
J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1332
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Photograph of a Group of Red Cross Workers, Indonesian Archipelago, 1874', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245134
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