Author: DEMMENI, JEAN (PHOTOGRAPHER; 1866-1939): ACEH WAR SCENERY -
Title: Een Veldhospitaal. [a Field hospital]. [Originele uitgave; Original publication).
Description: Haarlem, Kleynenberg & Co., [circa], 1912. Large folio, 73x60cm. Original black/white picture in photogravure, printed on heavy limp paer, illustrating a fieldhospital in Aceh, North Sumatra, with some indigenous bearers in foreground. Title in bold black type at tail in dutch language, publ. name at lower left corner beneath illustrated area. [Kleynenberg, plate no. 124]. Fine condition. A fine captioned monochrome impression of a dutch military field-hospital in Aceh during the war. A so-called Classroom Wall plate, reproduced after an original photograph by Jean Demmeni, a french Indo-European photographer and topographer, who worked for Kleynenberg Publishers, Haarlem between 1911-1913. Fine copy.

Keywords: militaria medicare field hospital bearers aceh atjeh war history colonialism sumatra indonesia southeast asia