This article explores the transnational visual language of picture postcards and the international business networks responsible for producing and disseminating the image of Dutch colonialism around 1900. Following a microhistorical approach, I consider the multilayered representation and transnational production of one particular postcard sent from colonial Indonesia to the Netherlands in 1900. The postcard established, visualised, and catalysed colonialism through its use of a European visual language. Colonialist meaning was attached to the image in Germany and was reinforced through the process of the postcard’s delivery from colony to metropolis. This article moves beyond a nation-based framework and instead analyses the meanings of colonial imagery in transnational contexts.

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Groet uit Java：1900 年左右的图片明信片和殖民地的跨国制作

本文探讨了图片明信片的跨国视觉语言，以及负责生产和传播 1900 年左右荷兰殖民主义形象的国际商业网络。按照微观历史方法，我考虑了从印度尼西亚殖民地寄给到的一张特定明信片的多层表现和跨国生产。 1900 年的荷兰。明信片通过使用欧洲的视觉语言建立、形象化和催化了殖民主义。殖民主义的意义被附加到德国的图像上，并通过明信片从殖民地到大都市的传递过程得到加强。本文超越了基于民族的框架，而是分析了殖民意象在跨国语境中的含义。