The discovery of the 'Selametan' photo
A picture is worth a thousand words, well we history lovers know that already, right? Recently I acquired a collection of photo albums who belonged to the Dinger family. A family originally from the Netherlands but living for many years in Java. 1 Album in particular is full of little and middle shaped photos. But the last two pages contains two bigger photos. One of them was already removed and contained some text on the back. These photos are really interesting. When I posted the other photo with the ‘selametan’ some people on Instagram asked me: who is the man in the opening of the door? Well also that was a little mystery to me… Later I was browsing through this album but I couldn’t see any more information about the photos. Still, I was wondering and suddenly I got an idea; the last photo has some text information on the backside, what if that was the same with the selametan photo? Could there also be more information on the backside? So, I rem...