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Prapatan electricity pole 1941-now
Prapatan electricity pole left (1941) and right (2020) Thanks to Marc Tierolf who attended us on the electricity pole at the bridge over the Ciliwung River near the Hotel Aryaduta in Prapatan. Despite a few new enforcements, new convectors and different warning signs,...
Jalan Raden Saleh 1940-now
Jalan Raden Saleh in 1940 (left) and 2020 (right) If you think our obsession for Jakarta's history has reached worrying levels, then you might be right. Who else in the world would get so utterly excited by discovering colonial era relics from the time Jakarta was...
Bank Tabungan Negara 1980
Bank Tabungan Negara (former Postspaarbank) at Jalan Gajah Mada 1980 Cars making a U-turn at the Harmoni intersection in front of the Bank Tabungan Negara 40 years ago. At that time the building was still in exactly its original state, before the newly built high rise...
President Soekarno 1963
https://youtu.be/TuMquBUsG5Y President Soekarno in a Dutch interview at Istana Merdeka, 1963 A short but rare interview in Dutch, given by President Soekarno (1901-1970) to Dutch journalist Willem Oltmans (1925-2004) in Jakarta's Merdeka Palace in 1963. Oltmans, who...
Jalan Medan Merdeka Timur 1930
View of Gambir train station along Koningsplein Oost (Jalan Medan Merdeka Timur) in 1930 An early morning view of Koningsplein Oost (now Jalan Medan Merdeka Timur) of exactly 90 years ago, with train station Weltevreden (now Stasiun Gambir) on the right side of the...
Jakarta in colour 1937
https://youtu.be/nfpffVFkUoU The very oldest pictures of Batavia/Jakarta in full colour date from 1937. James Anthony FitzPatrick's series "The Voice of the Globe", of which yesterday we posted footage from 1939, already pictured Java with a Technicolor camera in...
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