During the summer of 2001 the publicist and journalist Herman Keppy discovered two steamer trunks in a fully stacked room in the Dutch town of Alkmaar. The trunks contained the photo collection and personal papers of Wim Tehupeiory (1883-1946), who was active as a 'native doctor' in the 1920s in the then Netherlands Indies.
The contents of the trunks were useful as a source for Keppy in writing his historical novel Tussen Ambon en Amsterdam [Between Ambon and Amsterdam], published in 2004. He recently transferred this material to the IISH: it is comprised of more than 260 private and professional letters (1898-1946) and scores of folders containing files, including monthly reports of the Government Hospital in Blinjoe on the island of Banka (1910-1914), health reports and records of mine workers declared unfit to work at the tin mines on Banka (1910-1915), documents on the Vereeniging Ambonsch Studiefonds (1914-1921), and an extensive collection of photos.
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