1931 Print Amsterdam Netherlands Trading Dutch Sugar Cuba van Aalst Java FZ1 XGG3 Keywords specific to this image:

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Photograph by Hugo Brehme

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1931 Print Amsterdam Netherlands Trading Dutch Sugar Cuba van Aalst Java FZ1 XGG3 Keywords specific to this image:This is an original 1931 halftone print of the director's room of the Netherlands Trading Company in Amsterdam. The caption reads, "In Java, half a world away, they had an island which, next to Cuba, was the world's greatest sugar exporter. In Java, too, they had an industry which could produce sugar at a lower average cost than that of any other nation. They could urge that they had neither advocated nor profited by the bounties and the tariffs by