Getting started with the collection:
Album Photographieën the Netherlands / Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia)
attributed to Frits Freerks Fontein Fz., 1898 - c. 1915
There are a substantial number of albums in the Netherlands of entrepreneurs, administrators, military men, and engineers who were stationed for some time in the Dutch East Indies. Fontein was a chemical engineer at the Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij (Batavian Oil Company) and sailed from Harlingen to Pekalongan. With over 160 photographs, this album bears witness to both his time in the Netherlands and years in the tropics.
- Artwork typephotograph album, scrapbook
- Object numberRP-F-2001-17-12
- Dimensionsheight 252 mm x width 345 mm x thickness 38 mm
- Physical characteristicsoblong plakboek van karton; kaft bekleed met rood en bruin leer, voorzien van goudopdruk; tussenbladen van sierpapier met bladmotief; kartonnen lichtblauwe bladen met kleur op snee; bijschriften in pen en inkt