Dimensions: 293 x 239 mm 2 Photographer: G.R. Schilling Date: 1902 Description: Photograph mounted on a cardboard support with size 486 x 326 x 0.9 mm 3 . The image depicts the house of the accountant on the Padang- Boelan plantation of the Amsterdam Deli Company near Medan.

G.R. Schilling: photographer in the Dutch East Indies Gustav Robert Schilling was born on February 26, 1861, in Breitenbach, Germany, to Johann Carl Schilling and Rosina Schilling (née Franke). He served in the Prussian army from June 11, 1878, to February 27, 1881, before enlisting as a soldier-musician in the Dutch army on March 1, 1881. On April 10, 1883, he volunteered for service in the Dutch colonial army (KNIL), rising to the rank of sergeant bugler before retiring on October 21, 1896, in Padang, Sumatra. After his retirement, Schilling became a professional photographer, working in Fort de Kock (1898-1903) and later in Sawah Loento (1904-1908). He moved to Buitenzorg in 1909, though it is unclear if he continued his photographic work there. Schilling died on September 1, 1917, in Buitenzorg.

Dimensions: 238 x 290 mm 2 Photographer: G.R. Schilling Date: 1902 Description: Photograph mounted on a cardboard support with size 326 x 487 x 0.9 mm 3 . The image shows a Yucca americana in front of a 25 year-old Ficus elastica in the garden of the principle administrator of the Padang-Boelan plantation of the Amsterdam Deli Company.

Dimensions: 237 x 289 mm 2 Photographer: G.R. Schilling Date: 1902 Description: Photograph mounted on a cardboard support with size 326 x 486 x 0.9 mm 3 . The image shows a Waringin tree in the garden of the principle administrator of the Padang-Boelan plantation of the Amsterdam Deli Company.

Dimensions: 292 x 242 mm 2 Photographer: G.R. Schilling Date: 1902 Description: Photograph mounted on cardboard support with size 489 x 328 x 1.1 mm 3 . The image shows three European men in front of tobacco plants on the Amplas plantation of the Amsterdam Deli Company near Medan.