What a great topic! I can’t remember if this book has Dutch coverage, but probably not. Will send any more good Delpher finds your way! www.dukeupress.edu/the-modern-g...
This is basically my haircut.
"This is a woman! An American, afflicted according to the latest fashion." Limbursch Dagblad, 1925. resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=...
I'm sort of never not thinking about the "Codex Canadensis," an extraordinary visual imaginary of the people, animals, and plants encountered by Jesuit Louis Nicholas in New France c1660s www.aci-iac.ca/the-essay/ar...commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categor...
The brilliant @ailishlalor.bsky.social has written a gorgeous essay about animal charisma, animal vengeance, and The Hague's most famous missing elephant.🐘
<p>On animal charisma and animal vengeance. What happens when an elephant goes missing a year <em>after </em>her death.</p>
Imagine your scientific name sounding as cool as Nycticorax nycticorax. In English, they call you not just the Night Heron, but even the Black-Crowned one! YOU ARE A SUPERVILLAIN! And then Dutch just call you: "kwak". KWAK. And you don't even quack...🦉🪶
A northern lapwing (kievit) chilling under a nest-protector in Friesland in the Netherlands. From Het Vogeljaar, April 1974. 🪶
Here is the Swiss-Dutch photographer Adolphe Burdet setting up his bird hide for filming and then hanging out with a bunch of owls, in 1937. Voiceover by Jac. P. Thijsse. More on Burdet: filmdatabase.eyefilm.nl/en/collectio... 🪶
Datum eerste filmkeuring 08-02-1937Ad. Burdet is een pionier op het gebied van de vogelfotografie en film. Burdet, een Zwitser van geboorte, geeft les in mod...