Pas-Kaart vande zee kusten van Niew Nederland anders genaamt Niew York. (Chart of the Sea Coast of New Netherlands Otherwise Named New York.) 1685 Mapmaker:...
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.
Mapmaker: Montanus, Arnoldus This map was first published in Montanus’ book De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld published in Amsterdam in 1671. It depicts New Amsterdam as it...
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.
Novi Belgii Novaeque Angliae. (New Netherland and New England.) mid-1650’s Mapmaker: Justus Danckerts This plate was produced in the mid-1650’s, engraved as a copy of...
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.
Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova. (New Netherland and New England.) 1694. Mapmakers: Peter Schenk and Gerard Valk Janssonius sold his 1635 plate to Peter Schenk...
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.
Belgii Novi, Angliae Novae et Partis Virginiae (New Netherland, New England and parts of Virginia) 1650. Mapmakers: (Janssonius or Jansson) Jansz and (Johannes or Johan)...
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.
