Author: DEMMENI, JEAN (PHOTOGRAPHER; 1866-1939),
Title: Curaçau (sic.!) Zoutindustrie. Verscheping van het Zout. [Originele uitgave; Original edition].
Description: Haarlem, Kleynenberg & Co., [circa], 1913. Large folio, 73x60cm. Original black/white picture in photogravure, printed on heavy limp paper, illustrating preparations for shipping of Salt on Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles. Dutch language title at tail of illustration, publ. name at lower left corner beneath illustrated area. [Kleynenberg, plate no. 170]. Dutch captioned monochrome picture illustrating preparations for shipment of natural Salt (a ditcj colonial state monopoly) on Curaçao Island, dutch Antilles.Only 9 plates have been spublished in this series. Photographed by Jean Demmeni, a french indo-european who worked for a dutch publisher Kleynenber Cy., Haarlem, between 1911-1913.

Keywords: photogravure history tradition salt industry curaçao antilles caribbean kleynenberg colonialism west indies