Title
Album of photographs and receipt (B3955)
Year/Period
20th century
Region
Indonesia
Material
Dimension
Object size: 30.0 x 20.0 cm
Accession No.
2017-00676
Collection of
The album is made up of small photographs attached to album leaves, showing family and friends in interior settings and outdoors. A receipt was found in its pages. With continuous improvement of camera technology, it became possible to take photographs without the assistance of a studio in the first decades of the 20th century. Many middle-class families collected photographs in albums as a way of documenting family life, or documentasi keluarga.Ranging from formal studio portraits to albums of snapshots of everyday life and stately ancestral portraits, this large group of photographs reveals the many forms of photography available and gives insight into the various aspects of the lives of Peranakans.
