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This map shows Java and Bali divided into Dutch colonial administrative areas (‘residencies’), and features mountains, rivers, settlements, and routes. It was designed to be folded within book covers so it could be easily carried.

This map shows Java and Bali divided into Dutch colonial administrative areas (‘residencies’), and features mountains, rivers, settlements, and routes. It was designed to be folded within book covers so it could be easily carried.

The thick black lines on this map represent proposed routes for new railway lines in mid-19th century Java. The island is divided into administrative regions, with significant mountains and rivers marked.

The thick black lines on this map represent proposed routes for new railway lines in mid-19th century Java. The island is divided into administrative regions, with significant mountains and rivers marked.

The thick black lines on this map represent proposed routes for new railway lines in mid-19th century Java. The island is divided into administrative regions, with significant mountains and rivers marked.

This detailed map of the Dutch East Indies in the mid-19th century contains a great deal of information: topographical details, settlements and administrative areas, roads, railways and maritime routes, telegraph lines, inset maps etc.

Mid-19th century map of the city of Samarang (Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia) dominated by the Fort Prins van Oranje. The railway station and Haven Kanal, which flows to the sea, are also prominent. The city is surrounded by villages and fields.

The residency of Kadoe in Central Java is shown divided into two regencies (yellow border) and 12 districts (blue borders). At the left edge, there are drawings (called elevations) of the side views of the area’s mountains, marked with their heights.

The residency of Soerakarta (Surakarta), Central Java, featuring crops (coffee, sugarcane, rice, sugar); warehouses (coffee, sugar, tobacco, indigo plant); factories (sugar, tobacco, indigo plant); routes (railway, postal, road).

This map follows a railway line south from the city of Samarang to Soerakarta and Djokdjokarta (cities in two of the ‘Vorstenlanden’ or ‘Princely Lands’). Other railways, rivers, crops (indigo plants, tobacco, coffee) and sugar factories are marked.

The residency of Semarang, Central Java, featuring crops (coffee, rice, bamboo, nipa palm); warehouses, cemeteries, post offices; routes, administrative borders; mountains, rivers, forests. An inset map shows updated details of the Kendal district.

Map of the city of Djokakarta (Yogyakarta, Java), featuring streets and buildings, as well as a military fort, public square and railway station. The surrounding area has rice (paddy) fields and villages.