Alkmaar Cheese Market and Zuider Zee
Title
Alkmaar Cheese Market and Zuider Zee
Description
Left page title 'Alkmaar Cheese Market'.
Top left - men carrying large cheese sledges out of a building with flag over doorway. On the reverse 'Weighing a sale'. Top right a man dressed in white with broad brimmed hat at the front of a large cheese sledge. On the reverse 'Alkmaar Cheese market, Porter (various coloured hats to denote firm) and cheese sledge'.
Middle - A boy sitting on the side of a barge with a girl in traditional dress kneeling behind wiping his hand. Captioned 'Boy and girl on barge'. On the reverse 'Boy and girl wearing local costume - Alkmaar - on barge into which cheeses were being loaded'.
Bottom left - On the left four loaded cheese sledges. On the right a man is rolling cheeses down a wooden chute into a barge. On the left in front Joy Dawson is keeling by the chute. In the background a crowd of men and women. Captioned 'Barge loading chute'. On the reverse 'Joy - at loading chute into barge'.
Bottom right - a woman in traditional dress at a cheese counter with several round cheeses and boxes. Captioned 'Souvenir sales girls'. On the reverse 'Lay in local (Alkmaar) costume selling cheese to visitors'.
Right page.
Top left - a town on shoreline taken from out to sea. Captioned 'leaving V[?]'. Top right a group of fisherman in fishing clothes sitting and standing in front of a building. Captioned 'Fishermen of Volendam - normal dress'. On the reverse 'Fisherman of Volendam - normal dress'.
Middle left - six concertinaed folded postcards showing people in local dress and village scenes with houses, women washing clothes and a small lifting bridge.
Middle left underneath postcards - a distant view of a shoreline. On the reverse 'The whole of Marken - from Zuider Zee'.
Middle right - a harbour entrance with piers and buidings surrounding. Captioned 'Marken Harbour'. On the reverse ' Marken from Zuider Zee. Cottage on far right is the one of interior view on snap 16'.
Bottom - inside a house a wall with mounted plates, a curtained alcove with bed and a grandfather clock. Captioned 'Interior of cottage showing double bed in wall'.
Top left - men carrying large cheese sledges out of a building with flag over doorway. On the reverse 'Weighing a sale'. Top right a man dressed in white with broad brimmed hat at the front of a large cheese sledge. On the reverse 'Alkmaar Cheese market, Porter (various coloured hats to denote firm) and cheese sledge'.
Middle - A boy sitting on the side of a barge with a girl in traditional dress kneeling behind wiping his hand. Captioned 'Boy and girl on barge'. On the reverse 'Boy and girl wearing local costume - Alkmaar - on barge into which cheeses were being loaded'.
Bottom left - On the left four loaded cheese sledges. On the right a man is rolling cheeses down a wooden chute into a barge. On the left in front Joy Dawson is keeling by the chute. In the background a crowd of men and women. Captioned 'Barge loading chute'. On the reverse 'Joy - at loading chute into barge'.
Bottom right - a woman in traditional dress at a cheese counter with several round cheeses and boxes. Captioned 'Souvenir sales girls'. On the reverse 'Lay in local (Alkmaar) costume selling cheese to visitors'.
Right page.
Top left - a town on shoreline taken from out to sea. Captioned 'leaving V[?]'. Top right a group of fisherman in fishing clothes sitting and standing in front of a building. Captioned 'Fishermen of Volendam - normal dress'. On the reverse 'Fisherman of Volendam - normal dress'.
Middle left - six concertinaed folded postcards showing people in local dress and village scenes with houses, women washing clothes and a small lifting bridge.
Middle left underneath postcards - a distant view of a shoreline. On the reverse 'The whole of Marken - from Zuider Zee'.
Middle right - a harbour entrance with piers and buidings surrounding. Captioned 'Marken Harbour'. On the reverse ' Marken from Zuider Zee. Cottage on far right is the one of interior view on snap 16'.
Bottom - inside a house a wall with mounted plates, a curtained alcove with bed and a grandfather clock. Captioned 'Interior of cottage showing double bed in wall'.
Date
1952
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Type
Format
Ten b/w photographs and six colour post cards mounted on two album pages
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Identifier
PDawsonSR16010320, PDawsonSR16010321, PDawsonSR16010322, PDawsonSR16010323, PDawsonSR16010324, PDawsonSR16010325, PDawsonSR16010326, PDawsonSR16010327, PDawsonSR16010328, PDawsonSR16010329, PDawsonSR16010330, PDawsonSR16010331, PDawsonSR16010332, PDawsonSR16010333, PDawsonSR16010334, PDawsonSR16010335, PDawsonSR16010336, PDawsonSR16010337, PDawsonSR16010338, PDawsonSR16010339, PDawsonSR16010340
Citation
“Alkmaar Cheese Market and Zuider Zee,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed April 19, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/6788.
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