Year: 1957
Type: article
Abstract: One of the indicators for the interest, in both the Netherlands and the West Indies, in the history and historiography of the Caribbean may be found in the existence of private collections of books and pamphlets on the area.The important collection on the Netherlands Antilles which Mr. B. DE GAAY FORTMAN -to whom the present issue of Z)e W<?s/-/ndtsc/k; Girfs is dedicated -has painstakingly built up in the course of close to fifty years is certainly such a mark of interest.This among other achievements helped to earn him the well-deserved Silver Carnation of the Prince Bernhard Fund in 1953.Other persons who have privately collected books and pamphlets and sundry other materials while publishing historical data are F. OUDSCHANS DENTZ (also closely connected with this journal) and, on Curacao, the late N. VAN MEETEREN, whose collection is well preserved and kept up-to-date by his son.* A possible drawback of private collections is that they may be dispersed at the death of the owner, as happened in the case of Dr. TH. LENS and L. LENS, although part of their material went to Mr. DE GAAY FORTMAN.On the other hand both public libraries and archives are often benefitted by private collections presented to them either on the owner's death or during his i The VAN MEETEREN collection contains some valuable historical material, part of which the collector published in his booklet on Curacao's old fortifications: De owde üMtftnga/erAew, /oWe« en 6aWeW/en ua« CM^afao Willemstad, N.A., 1951.See also N. VAN MEETEREN, ATood/o/srfagen: Grenen «i< de g^scAierfems ran Curasao J799-JS00, Willemstad, N. A., 1944, and articles in this journal and in Lw*, an Antillian monthly which appeared on Curacao from 1940 till 1943.7] * See the catalogue of the Royal Library's pamphlet collection: VV.P. C. KNUTTEL, Cato/o^ws nan rf« £am//e«em>£r.2amWtngberustende tn
Author: Johanna Felhoen Kraal
Language: German
Subfield: Conservation
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W1997182623