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View at Tempoeran / The place where the bridge will come is on the left hand, where the beams lie on the slope, the river the Toentang flows underneath
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View at Tempoeran / The place where the bridge will come is on the left hand, where the beams lie on the slope, the river the Toentang flows underneath

Carl Emanuel Friedrich Lang · 1865-01 - 1865-03 · albumen print; cardboard; photographic support

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

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Work at Tempuran where a railway bridge over the Kali Tuntang river is to be built. In the foreground, Javanese workers and a European inspector. Album page with a mounted photograph, part of the photo album on the construction of the Semarang–Kedoeng Djattie (Kedungjati) railway line on Java in 1865.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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albumbladphotographcolonial systemrailway-trafficbuilding-siteJava
Credit lineGezigt bij Tempoeran / De plaats waar de brug zal komen is aan de linker hand, waar de balken op de helling liggen, de rivier de Toentang stroomt daaronder. 1865-01 - 1865-03. Carl Emanuel Friedrich Lang. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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