Hindustani contract workers in the immigrant depot, In the coolie depot (title on object), A group of contract workers from the British East Indies in the so-called 'coolie depot', the central gathering point for immigrants in Paramaribo, in the foreground a European supervisor or policeman. Part of the photo album Souvenir de Voyage (volume 4), about the life of the Dooyer family in and around the plantation Ma Retraite in Suriname in the years 1906-1913., Gomez Burke (possibly), Suriname, 1891, photographic support, gelatin silver print, height 123 mm × width 172 mm


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