Pas Caerte van Nieu Nederlandt en de Engelsche Virginies, van Cabo Cod tot Cabo Canrick. (Chart of New Netherland and the English Virginias from Cape...
A.J.F. Van Laer (1869–1955) was a Dutch American archivist and historian who translated and edited early Dutch records of New Netherland and Albany, preserving key seventeenth-century colonial documents despite major losses in the 1911 New York Capitol fire.
Nova Anglia, Novum Belgium, et Virginia (New England, New Netherland, and Virginia) 1636. Mapmakers: (Janssonius or Jansson) Jansz and (Johannes or Johan) Jan This is...
Peter Kuyper and his wife Lucille acquired the Rolscreen window screen company in 1925 and moved it to Pella, Iowa. Their firm evolved into the Pella Corporation, a major manufacturer of windows and doors.
Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova. (New Netherland and New England), 1635 Mapmaker: Willem Blaeu This is the engraved version of Adriaen Block’s 1614 manuscript map...
Gerard Kuiper (1905–1973) was a Dutch-born astronomer and pioneer of modern planetary science. He discovered several planetary satellites and atmospheres and proposed the Kuiper Belt, a distant region of icy bodies beyond Neptune believed to be the source of many comets.
Mapmakers: Hessel Gerritsz and Ioannes de Laet This landmark work, the foundation map of New Netherland’s printed patrimony, places the Dutch claim in its geographic...
Louis Kregel (1888–1939) and his son Robert Kregel (1919–2011) were Dutch American booksellers and publishers who built Kregel Books in Grand Rapids, Michigan into a leading distributor and publisher of Christian literature.
Herman Knickerbocker (1779–1855) was a New York lawyer, Federalist politician, and U.S. congressman who represented the Albany region from 1809 to 1811. A descendant of early Dutch settlers, he later managed the Knickerbocker family estate.
Mapmaker: Johannes van Keulen The part so far left out of this tale of European awareness of Northeast America are the maps which guided the...
