Affiche Telefoneer met Nederlandsch-Indië
Can I see it?
Unknown
Where is “Affiche Telefoneer met Nederlandsch-Indië” now? Collection: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Unknown.
Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- Source
- The museum
About the work
Technological inventions rapidly improved communication between the Netherlands and colonial Indonesia. Telephone calls could be made via a direct connection from 1929. This poster is an advertisement for this service. A three-minute call to Java cost 33 guilders (more than a week’s salary for a skilled worker). At the left is typical Dutch imagery, and at the right a shadow puppet, an equally cliché representation of the Dutch East Indies.
Rijksmuseum
Details
- Accession number
- RP-P-1994-235
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Rijksmuseum
- Image: Rijksmuseum — public domain
