Assistant’s bungalow at the tobacco fields (top) and railway station (bottom) in Medan

This photograph is part of a collection titled Souvenir de Deli, comprising the works of C. J. Kleingrothe, a photographer based in Sumatra in the late 19th and early 20th century. The photograph above depicts a scene in a tobacco plantation, with a bullock cart in the foreground and the plantation assistant’s bungalow in the background. It was published in Kleingrothe’s Sumatra’s O.K. portfolio. The photograph below presents a view of a railway station in Medan.

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