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Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Exergy, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Oh I love that sun shine and smile......... Great capture!

love this!

Love that almost nothing is a disposable after one use in the photo.

This chick is 'some kind of clean. She's even leaning on her vacuum. I bet we could eat off of her grittiest corner and feel confident she had sterilized it.

Splendid, Thanks and greetings.

An 1880 article describes the isolated fishing island that Marken will have been when these photos were taken. "The men are extraordinarily sober, and live to a great age. They leave the island every Sunday night with their boats, pass the week fishing in the Zuyder Zee, and return on the Saturday. The women educate the children, cultivate the ground, and make the clothing for the family. Like all the other Dutch women, they love cleanliness and ornament, and in their cabins also are to be seen the inevitable white curtains, glass cups, embroidered bed-covers, looking-glasses, and flowers. The greater part of them never see any other land than that of their little island. " See www.oldandsold.com/articles19/holland-14.shtml After the Afsluitdijk dam closed the Zuiderzee and formed the Ijsselmeer, Marken was joined to the mainland by a causeway in 1957. See islas.ruudbijlsma.nl/mk_en.htm

very interesting and also the extra info added by swanq !! I especially like the heart shaped cut out on the bench , which many emulate even in our times. Nice touch those big socks hanging in the corner ( I think socks ? )

Really peaceful....no traffic or throngs of pedestrians. Really feel frozen in that moment of time.

En dan ziet het er weer uit als een spiegeltje.

The Spiegelgracht isn't that long. There could never have been a house with number 287....

Must be Lijnbaansgracht 287; see a.o. picture nr 010122018289 in the Beeldbank of the Stadsarchief Amsterdam.

Barmsijs, you are right. It's not Spiegelgracght; the front of the house is similar to Lijnbaansgracht 287.