Poster Telefoneer met Nederlandsch-Indië (Telephone with the Dutch East Indies)

Poster Telefoneer met Nederlandsch-Indië (Telephone with the Dutch East Indies)

Telefoneer met Nederlandsch Indië (...)

RP-P-1994-235

date

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.

• print maker: Leo Visser, Amsterdam
• designer: Leo Visser, Amsterdam

1933

kleurenlithografie

height 413 mm x width 585 mm

Gift of the heirs of I.Q. van Regteren Altena, Amersfoort

gift 1994

Public domain

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