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This studio photograph shows a Chinese Peranakan bride in Batavia in her wedding dress seated against a draped background. This photograph was taken by Woodbury & Page. The same photograph can be found in the collection of the KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies in Leiden.Woodbury & Page was a photography studio set up in 1857 by British photographers Walter Bentley Woodbury and James Page in Batavia. Studios were already established across the Strait Settlements and the Dutch East Indies by the 1840s and became increasingly prevalent in the 1850s. During the 1920s, Chinese-owned studios dominated the studio photography trade in Southeast Asia.

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