Untitled

Title
Untitled
Year/Period
Late 19th century
Region
Indonesia
Material
Dimension
Object size: 26.0 x 21.3 cm,
Image size: 22.2 x 17.7 cm
Accession No.
2018-00163
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Mr and Mrs Lee Kip Lee

The photograph shows two Indo Eurasian woman (probably a mother and daughter) posing with a piano in the background. The younger woman wears a fashionable kebaya of the late 19th century.With continuous improvement of camera technology, it became possible to take photographs outside 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.