Card size: 16.6 x 10.8 cm,
Object size: 16.8 x 11.0 cm,
Image size: 14.3 x 10.0 cm
This studio photograph shows four children (one girl and three boys) in an outdoor setting, wearing Western-style clothes. They are possibly Eurasian. Printed on the recto is the studio mark ‘Salzwedel / Soerabaia 1878 / Batavia 1884 / Soerabaia’. Printed on the verso is another studio mark ‘H. Salzwedel Soerabaia / Specialitet in Vergrootingen / Het Cliché blyft voor nabeselling bewaard’.Herman Salzwedel was a German photographer who arrived in Batavia (Jakarta) in 1877 from Singapore. He established the photography studio H. Salzwedel in Surabaya in 1879, and in other cities in the Dutch East Indies archipelago in Sulawesi, Medan and Makassar under the management of subsequent owners though the business remained under his name. Photography studios had been established across the Straits Settlements and the Dutch East Indies by the 1860s, with the earliest studios being European-owned.
