09 Sep 2008

[The Dutch East Indies in] Colonial World Fairs
The Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Self-description: "The Colonial World Fairs collection consists of [over 5800 - ed] objects collected in the Netherlands East Indies between 1870 and 1940. At that time, the country now known as Indonesia was regarded unquestioningly as part of the Netherlands. The aim of the collection was to increase public knowledge about this exotic region. Colonial World Fairs [staged in the period 1880-1931 - ed.] gave large numbers of people the opportunity to become acquainted with their own colonies. It was quite clear how the Netherlands saw the East Indies. And it was equally clear how the Netherlands saw itself - or wanted to see itself."
Site contents: * Intro; * World Fairs; * About the collection; * Bibliography; * Colophon; * Search in collection; * Browse collection (by cultures, by countries, regions and places, by names).
URL http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/?/en/collecties/koloniale_wereldtentoonstellingen
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30