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Surinamese Caribbeans on a courtyard in the Saramaccastraat, Paramaribo
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Surinamese Caribbeans on a courtyard in the Saramaccastraat, Paramaribo

Hendrik Doijer · 1903 - 1910 · cyanotype; photographic support

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

About this work

View in Saramaccastraat in Paramaribo, with a group of posing Surinamese Caribs. When the Caribs came to Paramaribo, they often stayed in Saramaccastraat, near the Suriname River from which they arrived. Part of the photo album of the Doijer family, Souvenir de Voyage (part 1), in and around the Ma Retraite plantation in Suriname in the years 1903–1910.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineSurinaamse Caraïben op een erf in de Saramaccastraat, Paramaribo. 1903 - 1910. Hendrik Doijer. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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