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Onze KROONPRINSES in de West | Curaçao en Suriname
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Defaced Wilhelmina painting in Gouda
There are some items from Dutch East Indies associated with queen Wilhelmina exhibited in Gouda museum till may 2024 . This one was a painting of queen Wilhelmina that was defaced by the Indonesian nationalist in the 60s.
(The Indonesians these days don’t really hate Dutch people anymore though)
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The island of Deshima, c.1833-46. Painting by Japanese artist Kawahara Keiga c. 1833-1836.
Caption 19th century illustration showing an aerial view of the crescent-shaped island of Deshima in Nagasaki Bay, Japan. The artificial island was originally built as a trading post for Portuguese traders in 1634. It later became a Dutch trading post during the Edo Period when foreigners were not allowed to enter Japan. From 1641 to 1859, the Dutch were the only Europeans allowed to trade with Japan.
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JAPAN: DUTCH TRADER. Dutch trader and a Japanese geisha at the Dutch settlement on the island of Dejima, Nagasaki Bay, Japan. Scroll painting, early 18th century.
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Dutch West Indians To Fight Japs - 1945
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Looking for WWII Indo POW communities/resources for research
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Bowen, Emanuel, d. 1767. “A Complete Map of the Southern Continent: Survey’d by Capt. Abel Tasman & Depicted by Order of the East India Company in Halland [sic] in the Stadt House at Amsterdam.” Copperplate map, 37 × 48 cm.
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Dutch Reformed Church in Tulbagh, South Africa. (1743)
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Johannes van den Bosch, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies - 1829
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The coach of Javanese monarch Mangkunegara IV, Dutch East Indies (present day Indonesia) - c. 1870
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'Dutch Queen Signs Away An Empire', British Pathé newsreel of Queen Juliana granting Indonesia's independence - 1949
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'Rich Dutch Colonies at Stake - Will Japan Try to Take Them? Will the United States Defend Them?', World War II pictorial map - 1940
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Ponse family with servants in the garden, Sumatra, Dutch East Indies (present day Indonesia) - c. 1890s/1900s
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The First Slave Auction at New Amsterdam in 1655, by Howard Pyle (1853-1911).
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Flute orchestra in Dutch New Guinea - c. 1950s/1960s
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Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen, gouverneur-generaal van Nederlands-Brazilië (1637-1643). Portret door Jan de Baen, 1668.
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'A Negro hung alive by the Ribs to a Gallows', illustration showing how Dutch slave owners executed a slave in Surinam - 1796
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Apotheosis of the Dutch East India Company (Allegory of the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce of the VOC), Nicolaas Verkolje, 1702 - 1746.
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Land tax administration in the Dutch East Indies - c. 1895-1905
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Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, the founder of the Dutch East Indies Company. Portrait by Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt (1616).
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Meeting between Marind Papuan men and Europeans who show them a poster of a woman, Dutch East Indies - 1902
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Diorama of the Makassar War between the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the Makassar in what is now Indonesia - c. 1654-1668
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The yacht of the Rotterdam Chamber of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) greets an East Indiaman - 1790
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New Netherland map published by Nicolaes Visscher II (1649–1702).
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Redraft of the Castello Plan New Amsterdam in 1660. North is to the right.
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'Hoisting the Dutch flag in Longiram during the establishment of the colonial administration on the Upper Mahakam', Dutch East Indies - 1900
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