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CRA gallery
Vintage travel brochures & photographs
Tribute
Charles Tummers
My father, Charles Tummers, travelled to the Dutch East Indies as a sailor in the Dutch navy.
He stayed in Soerabaia and later in Hollandia sometime between 1949 and 1951. Although
his time in the country was brief, it made a strong impression on him, and later in life, he
collected many books and documents about the Dutch East Indies. Around the age of thirty,
I became involved in this collection, and after my father's death in August 2013, I began to
realize how important this shared passion had been to our relationship. Nowadays, I am
expanding my father’s original collection, and new items are regularly added to the CRA gallery.
My father and the children of a Dutch family near
Hollandia in Dutch New Guinea.
Charles Tummers (April 4, 1932 – August 2, 2013).
The photograph was taken on June 2, 2013.
