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Kongsi House and Water Installation of the Bangka Tin Mining Company at Merawang
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Kongsi House and Water Installation of the Bangka Tin Mining Company at Merawang

anonymous · 1914 - 1919 · gelatin silver print; cardboard; photographic support

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Album page with 2 photos of contract laborers posing in front of a kongsi house and a water installation of the Banka tin mining company in Merawang. Part of the photo album presented to Robert Julius Boers upon his departure to the Netherlands in 1919 by the staff of the Banka tin mining company.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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albumbladphotographRobert Julius BoersBanka-tinwinningcolonial systemminingworking class, labourers
Credit lineKongsihuis en waterinstallatie van de Banka-tinwinning te Merawang. 1914 - 1919. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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