The dataset contains data on Dutch public limited companies with ties in the Netherlands East Indies around 1900. Data include: a list of all positions (occupations) at the companies and an employee list of the companies. Also included in the dataset: membership lists of around 1900 of the Royal Institute of Linguistics and Antropology and of the Royal Dutch Geographic Society (KNAG). The data was collected as part of a project of the postgraduate course, Historical Information Processing, Leiden University.