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Christiaan Benjamin Nieuwenhuis, known as C.B. Nieuwenhuis, (4 July 1863 in
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File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Studioportret van een man in krijgskleding Zuid-Nias TMnr 60042491.jpg,
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Christiaan Benjamin Nieuwenhuis, known as C.B. Nieuwenhuis, (4 July 1863 in Amsterdam
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– 20 April 1922 in Padang) was a photographer in the Dutch East Indies
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He was born in Amsterdam in 1863 and his original surname was Niewenhuis. He volunteered for the militia in Batavia
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, Java in December 1883 for a six-year stint as a member of the Royal Military Band. In December 1889, he extended his contract for one more year.
He left the army in December 1890. In Batavia, he seemed to have worked at the Koene & Co. photo-studio and later left to Padang on West-Sumatra
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where he founded his own photo studio in February 1891. He died in Padang in April 1922.
Gallery
kampong
A kampong (''kampung'' in Malay and Indonesian) is the term for a village in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore and a "port" in Cambodia. The term applies to traditional villages, especially of the indigenous people, and has also been used t ...
in South Nias
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