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Crédit National c. 1919 – Paris, FR – July 2010
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45 Rue St. Dominique © Frank H. Jump
Credit National – Pour faciliter la reparation des dommages causes par la guerre.
National Credit – To facilitate the repair of damage caused by the war.
The national credit was a French bank created by special law on October 10, 1919 at the nexus of the private sphere and the sphere of influence of the French State involved in the payment of war reparations and financing of small and medium enterprises. It has always been in the private sector and its employees have never had the status of civil servants, despite employment contracts and organization benefitting the public. – Wikipedia (FR)
The BFCE (French Foreign Trade Bank) founded Natixis in the spirit of privatization with a merger in 2006 of Natexis and Ixis. Apparently I caught this sign after the Natixis sign was taken down. May 2008 © Google Maps
Wij groeien vast in tal en last… Burgerweeshuis (Citizen orphanage) – Kalverstraat 92 – Amsterdam NL
Relief with orphan children grouped around the emblem of the Amsterdam civic orphanage, the Burgerweeshuis circa 1581 by Joost Jansz Bilhamer © Frank H. Jump
June 2010 © Frank H. Jump
Amsterdam – Burgerweeshuis (Citizen orphanage)
In 1578 Amsterdam was forced to choose for the revolt against the Spanish (1578). Most Catholic property came to be owned the city. This was also the case with the former St. Lucien monastery. Shortly afterwards (1579) the empty monastery was inhabited by orphans.
The old building was reconstructed and a new building for little children, designed by Hendrick de Keyser, was added at the eastern side of the court-yard. In 1581 a new and conspicuous entrance gate was built in the Kalverstraat. Vondel wrote the text on it:
‘Wij groeien vast in tal en last, ons tweede vaders klaghen. Ay, gaat niet voort door deze poort, of help een luttel draghen’ (Our second fathers complain that we are growing in number and cost. Do not pass this gate without offering some help).
About 1631 the orphanage acquired the neighbouring Oudenmannenhuis (Old men’s house) buildings. After rebuilding the boy orphans came to live here. They had their own court-yard. In 1632 a extensive rebuilding took place: the north, west and south front of the girl’s court-yard. Afterwards the east front was rebuilt in the same style. The fronts then constructed and designed by Jakob van Campen are still determine the sight of the building. In front of the former monastery’s cow stable a gallery was built in 1632, probably designed by Pieter de Keyser (son of Hendrick de Keyser). Above the gallery the orphanage school was located.
To be accepted by the citizen’s orphanage, your parents had to have been official citizen (poorter) for a number of years. Not every inhabitant of Amsterdam had this civil right, for which you had to pay. If the parents had been citizen for too short a period or if they had been to poor to buy this right, the orphans had to be put up in one of the many church orphanages.
In the beginning of the 19th century the citizenship (poorterschap) was abolished. From 1819 on every Amsterdam inhabitant could register for the Burgerweeshuis.
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Latest revision: 12. September 2008 11:59 – CHAIN – Cultural Heritage Activities & Institutes Network
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Orphanage – Burgerweeshuis – Kalverstraat, Amsterdam – Wikipedia
Featured Fade: Coca-Cola Sign Uncovered in Chicago in Summer of 2012 – Mike Merritt
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Frank,
Stumbled across your site while on the net and love it!
I’ve attached a photo of a Coca Cola ad that was uncovered this summer when a building was demolished. This was in a row of buildings on the 5400 block of North Clark St. in Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood.
Enjoy!
Mike
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Lowlands Correspondent: Gaia Son – Pakhuismeesteren – Celebes, Borneo, Java, Sumatra – Kop de Zuid, Rotterdam NL
Rotterdam – Kop van Zuid, at Wilhelminakade-Statendam, October 2012 © Gaia Son
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© Gaia Son
Pakhuismeesteren (warehouse supervisors) is a former business and warehouse in the harbor area of Rotterdam in the south of centrum district called Kop van Zuid or South Bank. This post-colonial relic, on which the Indonesian islands of Celebes, Borneo, Java, Sumatra are written, stands on the Wilhelmina Pier for only about 70 years. Research has shown that a prior building with a wooden pile foundation once stood here from 1898 and burned down in 1937. This abandoned non-landmarked pre-WWII structure dates from about 1940 and is currently being renovated to feature a multi-purpose first floor with rented shops and offices, a catering hall, and 24 units of residential living spaces.¹
The now defunct Pakhuismeesteren business was established in 1818 after the 1800 dissolution of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) which after an almost two-century reign of colonial plunder, fell into ruins by way of corruption and mismanagement. Originally the “Pakhuismeester of Tea,” the company took on the interests of the Rotterdam VOC’s tea and spice trade. After three and a half centuries of Dutch colonialism, Indonesia declared its independence in 1945 which was finally recognized by the Netherlands in 1949. Rotterdam was the busiest world port since the early sixties until being surpassed by Shanghai in 2004.
De Boompjes or trees in front of the East India House which stood on the north bank of the , circa 1700, print van Petrus Schenk, Atlas van Stolk Boompjes, Rotterdam , from “Atlas van Stolk”, ca. 1700 – Wikipedia
