Title
Photographs of a Dutch-Indonesian banknote
Year/Period
1894
Region
Indonesia
Material
Dimension
Object size: Refer to parts
Accession No.
2018-00168
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Mr and Mrs Lee Kip Lee
These photographs show a Dutch-Indonesian banknote.King William I of the Netherlands granted the right to create a bank in the Indies in 1826, De Javasche Bank (DJB) opened in Batavia in 1828, and had exclusive rights to issue paper bank notes for 10 years. The bank’s rights were renewed periodically until 1922.In 1839 the French government made public technical information about the production of photographs, prompting a fervour for photographic technology which quickly spread from Europe to Southeast Asia. The first photography studios in the Dutch East Indies and the Straits Settlements were established in the first decades of the 1840s.
