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Lodging for Free Laborers. In the background, the housing plateau for Europeans
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Lodging for Free Laborers. In the background, the housing plateau for Europeans

anonymous · 1921 - 1922 · gelatin silver print; photographic support

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

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View of the residential plateau with housing for Europeans, with wooden barracks for the coal mine workers in the foreground. In the background, the Air Enim River with the railway bridge. Part of the loose-leaf photo album presented by the staff of the Boekit-Asam Coal Mines on Sumatra to the departing Engineer-Director H. Tromp on 7 January 1922.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Subjects
photographH. Trompcolonial systemanthracite, hard coalopencast mineBoekit-AsamSumatra
Credit lineLogies voor de vrije werklieden. Op den achtergrond het woningplateau voor Europeanen. 1921 - 1922. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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