Author: CREMER-HOGAN, J.T. - E. LEVYSSOHN [SCITIONAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS),
Title: Gids voor Insulinde. [Title on front cover]. De werkende Vrouw. [Exhibition catalogue]. [Eerste enige druk/first and only edition]. De werkende Vrouw].
Description: 's-Gravenhage, 1898. 12°., original printed wrappers, stapled. With a tinted illustration of a Javanese woman on front cover, large titned decoration in centre of lower outer cover. 50pp. black/white illustrations on 14 captioned plates, featuring Dutch East Indies female professions: a Javanese money echanger, a Javanese Street-hawker selling fruit, a servant, javanese warriors, both female and male; other plates feature architecture of exhibition Pavillions, designed by H.Westra Jr., name=list of various origanizing committees, a decorative head-piece, full-page plan of exhibition grounds with key, table of entrance fees in dutch currency, table of contents. dec. head-pieces, plan of the Exhibition. Dutch language SectionalGuide to an exposition as kept at The Hague in 1898, with as subject Working Women in The Netherlands and Overseas Territories. This guide describes the Section of the Dutch East Indies and supplies information on the socio-economic position of indigenous Indonesian women at the end of the nineteenth century. Very interesting. Good copy. (some wear to spine and spine-ends).

Keywords: art/batik/wayang/architecture/19thc.