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Javan rhino at Tjitelang 1895

18950804 kleine rhinoceros 07 Toxopaeus

Photograph of a Javan rhinoceros shot on the island of Java in 1895. From a photo-album in private hands.

Text in Dutch on the reverse:

De kleine rhinoceros te Tjitelang (N.W. kust van Bantam) op den 4. Aug. 95 geschoten

[The small rhinoceros shot at Tjiteland (N.W. coast of Bantam) on 4 August 1895.

The shooter is not identified here – elsewhere stated as Charles te Mechelen (1841-1917).

 

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