DUTCH EAST INDIES, PRESENTATION ALBUM, early 20th century A large presentation album, previously belonging to Abraham Cornelis Mees (1864 - 1950), likely gifted to him upon his retirement. Mees was the director of the International Credit and Trade Association Rotterdam around the turn of the century for over 25 years. He was based for a time in Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia (where he married Louisa Johanna Philippina Hen van Rijnberk in1892) and various other locations under Dutch colonial rule in the East Indies. Grey-painted leather-covered boards and binding, each cover intricately carved with deities, album overall 375 x 480, a mix of matte & glossy silver prints (68) tipped into thick card, primarily singular to page recto, with some smaller prints two-per-page, largest 212 x 275mm, smallest 115 x 156mm, manuscript captions in ink below each print in Dutch language. Bound in Rotterdam. Photographers include Christiaan Benjamin Nieuwenhuis, a Dutch photographer based in Padang, West Sumatra; Kurkdjian Studio, established by Armenian photographer Ohannes Kurkdjian in Surabaya and later taken over by English photographer GP Lewis, and others. Views include traditional Indonesian archictecture, urban, park, garden, mountain and river scenes in various locations related to the Dutch East India Company, most noted by their colonial names, including Tanjung Priok, Batavia, Weltevreden, Koningsplein, Parapatan, Meester Cornelis, Paleis te Buitenzorg, Plantentuin Palmenlaan, Garut, the volcanic crater at Tangkuban Perahu, Borobadur Temple scenes, a classical Javanese Wayang wong performance group, Semarang, Selokaton, Fort de Kock, Lemba Harau, Batipuh, and a group portriat of Minangkabau men and children in West Sumatra (Padangse Bovenlanden). Together with (2) matte silver print portraits of Mees, mounted, each measuring 150 x 110mm and 230 x 170mm, along with an anniversary copy of the NV International Credit and Trade Association Rotterdam, 1938, published on the occasion of the company's seventy-fifth anniversary on August 29, 1938. The Association was involved in many projects in Dutch East Indies, as well as transport to and from the region; softback measuring 315 x 245mm, with many photographic reproductions, including a portrait of Mees at the start of the book.