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
Identifier/Call Number: /repositories/3/resources/634
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./repositories/3/archival_objects/1200146
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 /repositories/3/archival_objects/466540
box 1*, item 1
Woodbury & Page (attributed), Tosari, 98.R.2-1/repositories/3/archival_objects/466541
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/repositories/3/archival_objects/466542
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/repositories/3/archival_objects/466543
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/repositories/3/archival_objects/466544
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/repositories/3/archival_objects/466545
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/repositories/3/archival_objects/466546
undated
Scope and Contents
Numbered in negative: 315. Gelatin silver print.
box 1*, item 7
Woodbury & Page, (attributed),Javanese cart, 98.R.2-7/repositories/3/archival_objects/466547
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/repositories/3/archival_objects/466548
undated
Scope and Contents
Albumen print.
box 1*, item 8 verso
Photographer unidentified, [European-style House with People on Porch], 98.R.2-8v/repositories/3/archival_objects/466549
undated
Scope and Contents
Albumen print.
box 1*, item 9
Photographer unidentified, [Portrait of a Ruler Wearing a Tall Crown], 98.R.2-9r/repositories/3/archival_objects/466550
undated
Scope and Contents
Albumen print.
box 1*, item 9 verso-1
Photographer unidentified, [Two Young Girls], 98.R.2-9v.1/repositories/3/archival_objects/466551
undated
box 1*, item 9 verso-2
Photographer unidentified, [Young Girl], 98.R.2-9v.2/repositories/3/archival_objects/466552
undated
box 1*, item 9 verso-3
Photographer unidentified, [Buddhist Priest Holding a Staff], 98.R.2-9v.3/repositories/3/archival_objects/466553
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/repositories/3/archival_objects/466554
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/repositories/3/archival_objects/466555
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.
Angkor Wat /repositories/3/archival_objects/466556
box 1*, item 11
Photographer unidentified, Portico Angle of the Gallery, Angier Java, 98.R.2-11/repositories/3/archival_objects/466557
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/repositories/3/archival_objects/466558
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/repositories/3/archival_objects/466559
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/repositories/3/archival_objects/466560
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/repositories/3/archival_objects/466561
undated
Scope and Contents
Title typed on mount. Albumen print.
Borobudur /repositories/3/archival_objects/466562
box 1*, item 16 recto
Photographer unidentified, [Tree-lined Street], 98.R.2-16r/repositories/3/archival_objects/466563
undated
Scope and Contents
Albumen print.
box 1*, item 16 verso
Photographer unidentified, [View of Borobudur], 98.R.2-16v/repositories/3/archival_objects/466564
undated
Scope and Contents
Albumen print.
box 1*, item 17
Photographer unidentified, [First Gallery, Main Wall Relief Sculpture, Borobudur], 98.R.2-17/repositories/3/archival_objects/466565
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/repositories/3/archival_objects/466566
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/repositories/3/archival_objects/466567
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/repositories/3/archival_objects/466568
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 /repositories/3/archival_objects/466569
box 1*, item 21
Cephas, Kassian (attributed), [Relief Sculptures, Exterior Niches, and Balustrade, Prambanan], 98.R.2-21/repositories/3/archival_objects/466570
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/repositories/3/archival_objects/466571
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/repositories/3/archival_objects/466572
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/repositories/3/archival_objects/466573
undated
Scope and Contents
Title written on verso. Gelatin silver print.
View of Candi Wringin Lawang.
Burma (Myanmar), Singapore, Thailand /repositories/3/archival_objects/466574
box 1*, item 25
Queen's Golden Monastery, 98.R.2-25/repositories/3/archival_objects/466575
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/repositories/3/archival_objects/466576
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/repositories/3/archival_objects/466577
undated
Scope and Contents
Title written on verso. Gelatin silver print. Temple with three towers, Phra Nakon Si Ayutthaya, Thailand.
folder 6
Unidentified sites /repositories/3/archival_objects/466578
box 1*
Photographer unidentified, [South Chinese-style Nine-storied Stone Pagoda], 98.R.2-28/repositories/3/archival_objects/466579
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/repositories/3/archival_objects/466580
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/repositories/3/archival_objects/466581
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/repositories/3/archival_objects/466582
undated
Scope and Contents
Gelatin silver print.
box 1*, item 32
Photographer unidentified, [Two Boys Pointing at a Temple], 98.R.2-32/repositories/3/archival_objects/466583
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/repositories/3/archival_objects/466584
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/repositories/3/archival_objects/466585
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/repositories/3/archival_objects/466586
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/repositories/3/archival_objects/466587
undated
Scope and Contents
Gelatin silver print. Possibly Thailand (?)
