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Voetstuk van vlaggestok / Pedestal of flagpole

from Nationaal Archief

• 1 older comment, and then…
• Henk van der Eijk said:

  To comply with the Dutch title the English title should be: "Pedestal of flagpole offered TO the city of New York in remembrance of the foundation of the city by the Dutch."

• Pixel Wrangler said:

  Netherlands Monument – Then and Now
  
  "Flag pole (2008)" by Newtsamson      "Pedestal (1926)"  by United Press
       
  
  Read the text on the Netherlands Memorial Flagpole in English or Dutch.

• Nationaal Archief said:

  Pixel, Thank you for your contribution

• it is aai! said:

  Is het origineel geretoucheerd? Dat blauwige gedeelte lijkt bewerkt. En moet het niet Peter Stuijvesant uitbeelden, die Manhattan 'koopt' van de Indianen?

• it is aai! said:

  Opschrift aan zijkant (Nederlands) luidt: "Nadat de Kamer Amsterdam der West Indische Compagnie op 22 April 1625 last had gegeven tot den aanleg van het Fort Amsterdam en tien bouwerijen daarnevens heeft de koop van het Eiland Manhattan in 1626 dien aanleg bevestigd welke de grondslag werd van de Stad New-York"

Battery Park on hot day (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• jun sabayton said:

  Siesta Time

• Wystan said:

  During the July, 1911, New York City heat wave. Here's Battery Park in more pleasant weather, September 6, 1915:

Baron Moncheur, F.R. Coudert, W.D. Robbins (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Dean Z said:

  Similar image exists at NARA (catalog.archives.gov/id/26431708)
  
  Belgian Mission in New York. Arrival of visiting delegates at the Battery, New York. Left to right: Baron Moncheur, head of the Belgian Mission; W.D. Robbins, reception committee Frederick R. Coudert, reception committee.

• Jon (LOC P&P) said:

  Dean Z, thanks for the identifications in this photo and the other similar ones, we'll add them to the catalog record.

• Richard Norton said:

  Ludovic Moncheur (1857-1940)
  www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1874008
  Warren Delano Robbins (1885-1935)
  www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7970162
  Frederic René Coudert II (1871-1955)
  www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63198411