Photographs
CRA gallery
Vintage travel brochures & photographs
Dimensions: 293 x 239 mm
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Photographer: G.R. Schilling
Date: 1902
Description: Photograph mounted on a thin cardboard
support with size 486 x 326 x 0.9 mm
3
. The image shows
the house of the accountant on the Padang-Boelan
plantation of the Amsterdam Deli Company near Medan.
Gustav Robert Schilling was born on 26 Februari 1861 in Breitenbach (Germany) as
the son of Johann Carl Schilling and Rosina Schilling (born Franke). He served in the
Prussian army between 11 June 1878 and 27 February 1881 before enlisting as a
soldier musician in the Dutch army on 1 March 1881. Several years later, on
10 April 1883, he volunteered to serve in the Dutch colonial army KNIL where he
reached the rank of sergeant bugler and retired on 21 October 1896 in Padang on
Sumatra. After his retirement Schilling became a professional photographer based in
Fort de Kock (1898-1903) and later in Sawah Loento (1904-1908). He moved to
Buitenzorg in 1909, but it is not clear whether he was then still active as a
photographer. G.R. Schilling died on 1 September 1917 in Buitenzorg.
Dimensions: 238 x 290 mm
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Photographer: G.R. Schilling
Date: 1902
Description: Photograph mounted on a thin cardboard
support with size 326 x 487 x 0.9 mm
3
. The image shows
a Yucca Americana in front of a 25 y/o Ficus Elastica in
the garden of the principle administrator of the Padang-
Boelan plantation of the Amsterdam Deli Company.
Dimensions: 237 x 289 mm
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Photographer: G.R. Schilling
Date: 1902
Description: Photograph mounted on a thin 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
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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.
