Finding Aid for Views of Southeast Asia, circa 1870-circa 1910 98.R.2
Beth Guynn
Special Collections
2010
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Contributing Institution: Special Collections
Title: Views of Southeast Asia
Creator: Woodbury & Page
Identifier/Call Number: 98.R.2
Physical Description: 38 photographic prints
Date (inclusive): circa 1870-circa 1910
Abstract: The collection of photographs contains views of archaeological sites, ruins, temples, stupas, and landscapes, as well as portraits
of local and European residents in Southeast Asia.
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Language of Material: Collection material is in English.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains 38 photographs, either albumen or gelatin silver prints, of archaeological sites, ruins, temples,
stupas, and landscapes, as well as portraits of local and European residents in Southeast Asia.
Among the views of sites and monuments are the Buddhist ruins of Borobudur, Prambanan, Mendut, and Wringin Lawang in Central
and East Java. Five photographs are annotated "Angier Java," but are mostly likely of Angkor Wat in Cambodia. There is one
view of the Golden Palace Monastery in Myanmar (formerly Burma), one of a temple at Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya in Thailand,
and eight unidentified temples, stupas, and relief sculptures. Photographs of Java include two views of the mountain village
of Tosari, one of the Tengger caldera, showing the smoking volcanoes Bromo and Semeru, and views of the aloon-aloon, or city
square, and the Mas river in Surabaya. Portraits include a Thai (?) ruler wearing a tall crown and a priest holding a staff
topped by a petaled mandala-like ornament.
Some items have brief English annotations written on the mount or verso in an unidentifed nineteenth-century hand. These have
been used as titles for the photographs. Consequently, some titles may include language now considered to be racist or biased.
Processing History
Processed and cataloged by Beth Ann Guynn; finding aid encoded by Holly Larson with grant funding from the Council on Library
and Information Resources (CLIR).
Preferred Citation
Views of Southeast Asia, circa 1870-circa 1910, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 98.R.2
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa98r2
Arrangement
Arranged in a single series: Series I. Views of Southeast Asia. Further arranged by cataloger by geographical location or
site.
Biographical/Historical Note
The photographs in this collection were taken in Southeast Asia by various photographers, known and unknown, between 1870
and 1910.Four of the photographs are attributed to or blindstamped by Woodbury & Page. The young Englishmen Walter B. (Bentley)
Woodbury (1834-1885) and James Page (1835-1865) met while seeking their fortunes in the Australian gold rush of the 1850s.
In 1857, they traveled to Java and opened the Woodbury & Page portrait studio in Weltevreden, Batavia (now Jakarta). Although
Page returned to England in 1860, and Woodbury returned in 1864, the firm Woodbury & Page existed in Java until 1901, run
first by Woodbury's younger brothers (Henry James and Albert), and later by Adolf Groth. Woodbury's career in photography
continued after his return to England. He is best known for inventing the Woodburytype process (photo-relief printing).Three
photographs are attributed to Kassian Cephas (1845-1912), the first native Javanese professional photographer. He had a studio
in Yogyakarta and was appointed painter and photographer to the court in 1871. He was a member of the Royal Institute for
Linguistics and Anthropology (Leiden) and the Archaeological Union of Yogyakarta, which commissioned his photographic campaigns
at Prambanam and Borobudur.
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Acquisition Information
Acquired in 1998.
Publication Rights
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Buddhist temples -- Cambodia -- Angkor (Extinct city)
Cambodia -- Description and travel
Trowulan (Indonesia) -- Antiquities
Angkor Wat (Angkor)
Southeast Asia -- Antiquities
Southeast Asia -- Buildings, structures, etc.
Prambanan (Indonesia) -- Antiquities
Singapore -- Description and travel
Tengger Mountains (Indonesia) -- Description and travel
Thailand -- Description and travel
Southeast Asia -- Description and travel
Southeast Asia -- Kings and rulers
Mendut (Temple : Magelang, Indonesia)
Monuments -- Southeast Asia
Buddhist priests -- Southeast Asia
Sculpture, Javanese
Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya (Thailand) -- Antiquities
Java (Indonesia) -- Antiquities
Borobudur (Temple : Magelang, Indonesia)
Mya Nan San Kyaw (Mandalay, Burma)
Gelatin silver prints -- Southeast Asia -- 19th century
Albumen prints -- Southeast Asia -- 19th century
Sculpture, Khmer -- Cambodia -- Angkor (Extinct city)
Buddhist temples -- Indonesia
Buddhist temples -- Southeast Asia
Volcanoes -- Indonesia
Cephas, Kassian, 1845-1912
Views of Southeast Asia Series I.
Arrangement
Arranged by cataloger by geographical location or site.
Scope and Contents
Some items have brief English annotations written on the mount or verso in an unidentifed nineteenth-century hand. These have
been used as titles for the photographs. Consequently, some titles may include language now considered to be racist or biased.
Southeast Asia - views and people
box 1*, item 1
Woodbury & Page (attributed), Tosari, 98.R.2-1
undated
Scope and Contents
Title written on verso. Gelatin silver print. Steep mountain road leading to Tosari, Java. For another copy of this print
see Special Collections accession number 2002.R.6-40.
box 1*, item 2
Woodbury & Page (attributed),Tosari, 98.R.2-2
undated
Scope and Contents
Title written on verso. Gelatin silver print. Steep mountain road with stick railings, Tosari, Java. Gelatin silver print.
box 1*, item 3
Photographer unidentified, Brono, 98.R.2-3
undated
Scope and Contents
Title written on verso. Gelatin silver print. View of the Tengger caldera with smoking Bromo volcano, and Semeru volcano in
the background. Java.
box 1*, item 4
Photographer unidentified, Aloon-Aloon Soerabay, 98.R.2-4
undated
Scope and Contents
Title written on verso. Gelatin silver print. Street vendors on the aloon-aloon (city square), Surabaya, Java.
box 1*, item 5
Photographer unidentified, Kali-mas, Soerabai, 98.R.2-5
undated
Scope and Contents
Title written on verso. Gelatin silver print.
Mas river with sampans, Surabaya, Java.
box 1*, item 6
Photographer unidentified, [River Village with Sampans], 98.R.2-6
undated
Scope and Contents
Numbered in negative: 315. Gelatin silver print.
box 1*, item 7
Woodbury & Page, (attributed),Javanese cart, 98.R.2-7
undated
Scope and Contents
Title written on verso. Gelatin silver print. Thatched ox cart. For another copy of this print see Special Collections accession
number 2002.R.6-8.
box 1*, item 8 recto
Photographer unidentified, [Group of Men and Boys in front of a Hut], 98.R.2-8r
undated
Scope and Contents
Albumen print.
box 1*, item 8 verso
Photographer unidentified, [European-style House with People on Porch], 98.R.2-8v
undated
Scope and Contents
Albumen print.
box 1*, item 9
Photographer unidentified, [Portrait of a Ruler Wearing a Tall Crown], 98.R.2-9r
undated
Scope and Contents
Albumen print.
box 1*, item 9 verso-1
Photographer unidentified, [Two Young Girls], 98.R.2-9v.1
undated
box 1*, item 9 verso-2
Photographer unidentified, [Young Girl], 98.R.2-9v.2
undated
box 1*, item 9 verso-3
Photographer unidentified, [Buddhist Priest Holding a Staff], 98.R.2-9v.3
undated
Scope and Contents
The staff is topped by a petaled mandala-like ornament.
box 1*, item 9 verso-4
Photographer unidentified, [Family Portrait], 98.R.2-9v.4
undated
Scope and Contents
Albumen print. Group portrait of a mother, father, and daughter.
box 1*, item 10
Woodbury & Page, Coffee Plantation, 98.R.2-10
undated
Scope and Contents
Title on verso. The photograph bears the Woodbury & Page blind stamp. Albumen print. Depicts a man on horseback near a wooden
bridge on a country path.
box 1*, item 11
Photographer unidentified, Portico Angle of the Gallery, Angier Java, 98.R.2-11
undated
Scope and Contents
Title from typed label on verso. Albumen print.
box 1*, item 12
Photographer unidentified, [Facade of the Grand Principal Pagoda, Angier, Java], 98.R.2-12
circa 1870s
Scope and Contents
Title written on verso. Albumen print.
box 1*, item 13
Photographer unidentified, South Side of the Grand Pagoda, Angier, Java, 98.R.2-13
circa 1870s
Scope and Contents
Title written on verso. Albumen print.
box 1*, item 14
Photographer unidentified, South Side of the Grand Principal Pagoda. Angier, Java, 98.R.2-14
undated
Scope and Contents
Title typed on verso. Typed label on mount: The Gallery, Angier, Java. Numbered on verso: 35. Albumen print.
box 1*, item 15
Photographer unidentified, The Gallery, Angier, Java, 98.R.2-15
undated
Scope and Contents
Title typed on mount. Albumen print.
box 1*, item 16 recto
Photographer unidentified, [Tree-lined Street], 98.R.2-16r
undated
Scope and Contents
Albumen print.
box 1*, item 16 verso
Photographer unidentified, [View of Borobudur], 98.R.2-16v
undated
Scope and Contents
Albumen print.
box 1*, item 17
Photographer unidentified, [First Gallery, Main Wall Relief Sculpture, Borobudur], 98.R.2-17
undated
Scope and Contents
Albumen print. First register: The dream of Queen Maya, ladies listening to her retell the story and courtiers receiving the
Brahman. Second register: Women fetching water from a lotus pond; a prince drops a ring into a vessel (Ib 16).
box 1*, item 18
Photographer unidentified, [Relief Sculpture: Sudhana Visiting a Physician (II 20), , Borobudur], 98.R.2-18
undated
Scope and Contents
Numbered in negative: 90. Gelatin silver print.
box 1*, item 19
Photographer unidentified, [Relief Sculpture: First Gallery, North Face, Borobudur], 98.R.2-19
undated
Scope and Contents
Written on verso: Boer-Bodoer. Gelatin silver. Upper register 1: Sakyamuni Buddha – Bathing of the crown prince. Upper register
2: Sakyamuni Buddha watering a tree. Lower register: King Rudrayana – Ministers sailing to new island and giving alms to inhabitants.
Lower register 2: Revering a stupa.
box 1*, item 20
Cephas, Kassian (attibuted), [First Gallery, North Face, Relief Sculpture #86, Borobudur], 98.R.2-20
undated
Scope and Contents
In negative: 96. ___gang. __vaswand, N.W. aÿar. Bbudur, mei 1901. Gelatin silver print. Upper register: Sakyamuni Buddha
– Bathing of the crown prince. Lower register: King Rudrayana – Ministers sailing to new island and giving alms to inhabitants.
Prambanan, Candi Mendut, and Candi Wringin Lawang
box 1*, item 21
Cephas, Kassian (attributed), [Relief Sculptures, Exterior Niches, and Balustrade, Prambanan], 98.R.2-21
undated
Scope and Contents
Numbered in negative: 6. Gelatin silver print. For another copy of this print see Special Collections accession number 2002.R.5-34.
box 1*, item 22
Cephas, Kassian (attributed), Doergâ, Prambaňan, 98.R.2-22
1895 Apr
Scope and Contents
Title in negative with: 1 meter. Gelatin silver print. Hindu goddess Durga standing on a bull.
box 1*, item 23
Photographer unidentified, Mandoet, 98.R.2-23
undated
Scope and Contents
Title written on verso. Gelatin silver print.
View of Candi Mendut with two European women on the steps.
box 1*, item 24
Photographer unidentified, Hindoo Temple at Lawang, 98.R.2-24
undated
Scope and Contents
Title written on verso. Gelatin silver print.
View of Candi Wringin Lawang.
Burma (Myanmar), Singapore, Thailand
box 1*, item 25
Queen's Golden Monastery, 98.R.2-25
undated
Scope and Contents
Title written on verso. Written on photograph: Queen's Golden Mausoleum. Gelatin silver print.
Shwenandaw Monastery/Golden Palace Monastery, Mandalay, Burma (Myanmar).
box 1*, item 26
Singapore, 98.R.2-26
1870s
Scope and Contents
Title written on verso. Written on mount: Miss Catherine Agnes Beasley Jan 1 1870. Rec'd. 13th March in a letter dated Singapore
1St Feb 1870. Albumen print. Depicts a young woman on horseback with attendant.
box 1*, item 27
Ruins at Ayouth'a, 98.R.2-27
undated
Scope and Contents
Title written on verso. Gelatin silver print. Temple with three towers, Phra Nakon Si Ayutthaya, Thailand.
box 1*
Photographer unidentified, [South Chinese-style Nine-storied Stone Pagoda], 98.R.2-28
undated
Scope and Contents
Numbered on verso: 150. Gelatin silver print.
box 1*, item 29
Photographer unidentified, [Boy on Stone Pathway in Woods Looking at a Monument], 98.R.2-29
undated
Scope and Contents
Gelatin silver print.
box 1*, item 30
Photographer unidentified, [Stone Pathway in Woods with Small Temple to Side], 98.R.2-30
undated
Scope and Contents
Gelatin silver print.
box 1*, item 31
Photographer unidentified, [Tiled Chinese-style Rooftops with Pagoda behind Them], 98.R.2-31
undated
Scope and Contents
Gelatin silver print.
box 1*, item 32
Photographer unidentified, [Two Boys Pointing at a Temple], 98.R.2-32
undated
Scope and Contents
Gelatin silver print. Temple has pagoda tower statues and other figures.
box 1*, item 33
Photographer unidentified, [Group of Tall, Ornate Stupas in a Temple Complex], 98.R.2-33
undated
Scope and Contents
Numbered in negative: 77. Gelatin silver print, blue-toned.
box 1*, item 34
Photographer unidentified, [Temple Complex with Statuary], 98.R.2-34
undated
Scope and Contents
Gelatin silver print.
box 1*, item 35 recto
Photographer unidentified, [Conical Monument or Stupa with Statute of Buddha inside], 98.R.2-35r
undated
Scope and Contents
Gelatin silver print. Possibly Myanmar (?)
box 1*, folder 35 verso
Photographer unidentified, [Temple Entrance Flanked by Two Monumental Guardian Figures], 98.R.2-35v
undated
Scope and Contents
Gelatin silver print. Possibly Thailand (?)
