Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0265Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is looking down a cannel that several boats are traveling on, the canal is lined with trees, in the distance a tall tower is seen. Above the image "T339 (Star)" is printed, below the image "25232T The Venice of the Norht - Over Three-lind Canal, North to Zuider Kerk, Amsterdam, Netherlands." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company COPYRIGHTED Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
25232
OVER TREE-LINED CANAL NORTH TO ZUIDER KERK, AMSTERDAM
We are looking nearly north. Antwerp and Brussels and Paris are behind us, Paris nearly 300 miles away; Berlin and Warsaw are at the east (right); London is only about 200 miles distant at the left, beyond the North Sea.
Artists come half around the world to sketch this picturesque old waterway with the thick-leaved trees, the quaint old houses, the bridges, the boats (there are always boats of some sort here) and that stately church-tower looking over the shoulders of the nearer buildings to see its own shimmering reflection.
There are canals innumerable here in Amsterdam - they say the original site of the city consisted of one hundred island and a march - but this one is a particular favorite since a few clever artists "discovered" it a generation ago and sent people flocking here to see. We are in the central part of the town. The famous picture galleries of the Rijks Museum are three-quarters of a mile away, behind us at the south. the church tower is partly of brick and parlty of stone; it belongs to the Zuider Kerk or South Church, bult three hundred eyars ago. It is 237 feet high, and there are fine old chimes up there under the curious, bulb-shaped dome.
The town just here looks sleepy, but it has a pupulation of some half a million and carries on important manufacturing industries, besides being one of the greatest trade centers of Europe. It was a place of powerufl guilds and of merchant princes three centuires ago, and their wealth made possible the development of the Netherland's marvelously good work in art.
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