Various disciplines of the Wageningen Agricultural College contributed to the ideas and the substantiation of ‘Landscape Plan Netherlands’. In fact, the various disciplines were integrated within this plan. Knowledge in the fields of soil science, geology, geography, forestry, culture technology, garden art and plant systematics was used to draw up the landscape plans. For each […]
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Benthem, on the left, took part in the team that prepared prins Claus for his position as a member of the royal family. Photo by courtesy of his family. Roelof Jan Benthem (1911-2003), from 1946 in a leading role at the department Landscape Care of the Forestry Commission (Staatsbosbeheer), was already interested in nature and
This digital exhibition is a spinoff of the exhibition Dutch Landscape Designed: 1946-1954. Now that topics such as nitrogen reduction, climate change and the transition of rural areas are the focus of attention, the discussion about a new design of the landscape is highly topical. From 1946 to 1976, a small group of landscape designers
Special Collections holds 72 beautiful images of G. Pusch and W. Schmidt. Berlin: Paul Paery, 1900-1910. The so-called Wandtafeln zur Beurteilung des Rindes can be seen in the WUR Image Collections in detail.
Explaining the anatomy of cows in 72 images Read More »
From: De koe : groot model (half levensgroot), aanschouwelijk uit- en inwendig voorgesteld door beweegbare platen / H.M. Kroon. Deventer : Kluwer, [ca. 1912] In the WUR Image Collections you’ll also find drawings of the organs and the muscles of the cow. The plates were used in animal husbandry classes.
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Plant parts of potato Solanum tuberosum L. cv. Alemaria by Antonia Koornneef, 1971 Watercolour and pencil, 20.5 x 29.4cm. This scientific drawing of several stages of growth of a potato was made by Antonia (‘Tonie’ or ‘Tons’) Koornneef (16 May 1919 to 12 December 2012). She worked at the ‘Government Institute for Research on Varieties
Malus x purpurea ‘Aldenhamnensis’ Who isn’t cheered up by a drawing of a crab apple blossoming in spring? The drawing was made by Wil Brand (later Wil Wessel-Brand) and dated 14 May 1968. At the time, Wil Brand worked at the Laboratory for Botany and Geography of Wageningen Agricultural College. This botanical pen drawing is
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Drawing by Suzon van Bovene-Beynon (1896, Batavia – 1968, The Hague) of black spot disease in cauliflower. WUR Image Collections boasts 880 of her beautiful and accurate illustrations of plant diseases and pests. Suzon van Bovene-Beynon worked at the experimental station for greenhouse vegetable and fruit cultivation in Naaldwijk between 1946 and 1955. She was
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Malus ‘John Downie’ This detailed drawing by Elisabeth Riemer-Gerhardt is dated 21 September 1956. Elisabeth Riemer-Gerhardt was born in 1930 in Buitenzorg (former Netherlands East Indies, now Indonesia). She worked in the Biosystematics department of the Agricultural College in the 1950s and 1960s. Besides her work as a botanical illustrator, she also decorated ceramics. Elisabeth
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From: Aantal stuks pluimvee en schapen per bedrijf per gemeente(n). ‘s-Gravenhage, [ca. 1963]. Speccoll. RKk.III, Nederland
Poultry and sheep in the Netherlands in 1963 Read More »