Seventy five year old photographs Roll #13 ... Singapore

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Following on from roll #12 posted in this thread.

This was marked 'Java/Singapore' and I can't tell which shots are Java and which are Singapore!

Plenty to look at here ... twenty images in fact. The film is Agfa.



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I think this roll are shots taken in Java, to be more specific in Bandung. I can recognise the big white building now called "Gedung Sate" where it would be probably known as Gouverments Bedrijven when the shots was taken.

The volcano (4th last photo from the first posting) could be Tangkuban Prahu..... and the last three could be shots taken on the way or coming back from it.

None from Singapore yet :)
 
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Who'd have guessed the Pope and Santa Claus were one in the same in Singapore?
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I think that's still Java and that's Saint Nicolas (before thje Coca Cola Company turned him into the chubby red chimney climber). So I think that particular photo was shot just before or on December 5th in accordance with Dutch tradition (or the 6th if you're German)

The shop window reads (in Dutch and French):

Maison "Roelofs"
Cooler and freezer rooms articles
Fine foods and delicacies

followed by Mr Roelofs telephone number


Fantastic stuff on all that you've posted in your ongoing series of holiday snaps Keith!
 
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Coca Cola AND Thomas Nast.

Mr_Flibble said:
I think that's still Java and that's Saint Nicolas (before thje Coca Cola Company turned him into the chubby red chimney climber). So I think that particular photo was shot just before or on December 5th in accordance with Dutch tradition (or the 6th if you're German)

The shop window reads (in Dutch and French):

Maison "Roelofs"
Cooler and freezer rooms articles
Fine foods and delicacies

followed by Mr Roelofs telephone number


Fantastic stuff on all that you've posted in your ongoing series of holiday snaps Keith!
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I like these better than the last roll. More information and better photos (may not have been so originally). I was wondering if the smoke in the 4th from the last was simply wood smoke or fumeroles; I guess the latter. Nice shots of the terraced rice paddies. That was what caused me to think it more likely those were from Java, even though I have no first hand knowledge of either place. I have always had the impression Singapore was a lot flatter. Somebody correct me if I am wrong.

Again Keith, thanks so much for sharing these photos.
 
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I have always had the impression Singapore was a lot flatter. Somebody correct me if I am wrong.

Again Keith, thanks so much for sharing these photos.
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It's not Singapore for sure, all the mountains don't fit into the island :). The shots are still in Java...... around the city of Bandung.

Maybe Singapore will be in the next roll.
 
rizraz said:
It's not Singapore for sure, all the mountains don't fit into the island :). The shots are still in Java...... around the city of Bandung.

Maybe Singapore will be in the next roll.
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Well that's odd ... the canister was marked Java/Singapore but obviously no Singapore.

The remaining three rolls are definitely not Singapore ... next up is Sydney/Brisbane/Townsville then the last two (unmarked) that both appear to be in Austria one of which is taken mainly at what I suspect was the forty five acre family home and estate known as 'Villa Mendl.'

There could be rolls missing from the trip of course ... who would know? Maybe they never made it to Singapore ... the writing on the canister doesn't look like it was written at the same time as the others.
 
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I agree that this is Java. And probably West Java. The rice fields gives it away.
And photo #7, I'm almost certain is De Techniche Hoogeschool te Bandung , founded on 3rd July 1920. Where yours truly went to school (in 1994, not in the 20's:)).
And as rizraz mentioned the white building is Gedung Sate, Gouvernements Bedrijven .

Again, thanks Keith.
 
Those are brilliant. You could almost make a panorama of the St. Nicholas and the kids lined up at the window.
 
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