PELAKITA.ID – Here are several historical photographs and images connected with South Sulawesi and the broader Dutch East Indies visual heritage (including Makassar/Celebes) — many of the kinds of images that are part of the KITLV (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies) photographic collections or similar colonial-era archives documenting life, places, and people in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (1860 – 1940).
Many of these images show harbors, buildings, boats, and town scenes from the region where you’re focusing (Makassar / South Sulawesi), which is part of the broad corpus of material preserved digitally from collections like KITLV. RSDA
📸 Selected Historical Images
1. Makassar Town Scene (Dutch East Indies / Celebes)
A historical view believed to show buildings and street life in Makassar during the colonial era — part of visual collections that depict everyday scenes in the Celebes region.
(Note: specific KITLV catalogue numbers may exist for similar images in the “Nederlands-Indië in foto’s, 1860-1940” collection.) RSDA
2. Portrait or Studio Photograph (circa 1860s)
This image shows a portrait of local people photographed during the early colonial photo era in Makassar (possibly connected to photographers like Woodbury & Page whose work circulated through KITLV and other archives).
3. Colonial Architecture in Makassar
Here’s a photo of colonial-era buildings in Makassar, including structures like Fort Rotterdam and early 20th-century civic architecture that appear in historical photo collections.
4–5. Harbour & Boats in Makassar/Celebes
These images show boats and harbor scenes that reflect the maritime life in Makassar and Celebes during the Dutch East Indies period. Many similar photos are preserved within the KITLV photographic archive documenting ports and nautical life.
Where These Come From & How to Access More
📌 KITLV photographic collections (“Nederlands-Indië in foto’s, 1860-1940”) contain tens of thousands of black-and-white documentary photographs taken from around the Dutch East Indies — including many from Sulawesi (Makassar) dating from the late 19th to early 20th century.
These include street scenes, harbour views, portraits, local dwellings, public buildings, and many aspects of daily life under both indigenous and colonial contexts. Delpher