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Marken - House Interior

            The Postcard

A postcard that was published by D. B. M. and printed in Holland. The card has a divided back.

There are many postcards showing Dutch women and girls on this photostream, and they are almost invariably shown knitting. 

Where boys are also present, they are usually shown wearing very baggy trousers and smoking a pipe, which would certainly not be allowed today.

Marken

Marken is a village in the municipality of Waterland in the province of North Holland, Netherlands. It had a population of 1,770 as of 2019, and it occupies a peninsula in the Markermeer. 

Marken was formerly an island in the Zuiderzee, although it is now connected to the mainland of North Holland by a causeway.  The characteristic wooden houses of Marken are a tourist attraction.

For some time during the later 19th. and early 20th. centuries, Marken and its inhabitants were the focus of considerable attention by folklorists, ethnographers and physical anthropologists, who regarded the small fishing town as a relic of the traditional native culture that was destined to disappear as modernisation of the Netherlands gained pace.

Among them were Johann Friedrich Blumenbach who examined a human skull from the island which he called Batavus Genuinus. Another was the Belgian painter Xavier Mellery who stayed in Marken at the request of Charles De Coster. Mellery was asked to create illustrative artwork and delivered several intimist works.

Cornelis Lely's designs incorporated the island into a proposed Markerwaard. A partial dike, built in 1941 in the north, is the first phase of that project which was stopped by World War II.

In 1983, the Marken Museum about the history of the island was opened.

Taken on: June 9, 2024

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