Reception in honor of the Donation of the Govert Loockermans Deed to the New-York Historical Society by the Society of Daughters of Holland Dames

October 20, 2015
The New-York Historical Society Museum & Library
New York, NY

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: l to r: H. E. Karel van Oosterom, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United Nations; H. E. Jan Balkenende, Former Prime Minister of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; Elbrun E. Kimmelman, Directress General of the Society of Daughters of Holland Dames; Rob de Vos, Counsul General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, New York; Dr. Michael Ryan, Vice President and Director of the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library, New-York Historical Society Museum & Library.

: Elbrun E. Kimmelman, Directress General with the Govert Loockermans Land Patent.

: Dr. Firth Haring Fabend, Historian and Patrooness of the Holland Dames.

: H. E. Jan Balkenende, Former Prime Minister of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

: Dr. Michael Ryan, Vice President and Director of the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library, New-York Historical Society Museum & Library.

: l to r: Mary W. Park, Past Directress General of the Holland Dames; Pauline Vietor Sheehan, Patrooness of the Holland Dames; Anna van Oosterom, Honorary Diplomatic Member of the Holland Dames. In the background is de Halve Maen the stained glass window donated by the Holland Dames to the N-YHS in 1909 and restored in 2011 by the family of Anna Glen Vietor, Past Directress General of the Holland Dames.

: H. E. Jan Balkenende, Former Prime Minister of the Kingdom of the Netherlands with the Holland Dames Members and Honorary Diplomatic Members.

: Marion de Vos, Honorary Diplomatic Member of the Holland Dames and her husband Rob de Vos, Counsul General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, New York.

: l to r: Tom Slattery; H. E. Jan Balkenende, Former Prime Minister of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; William Manger, Past President, the Saint Nicholas Society; H. E. Karel van Oosterom, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United Nations.

: Elbrun E. Kimmelman, Directress General of the Holland Dames; Alidia Clagett; Dr. Suzanne Roff-Wexler; Professor Martha Howell, Dutch Studies Program at Columbia University.

: Kathryn Van Sickle; Genie Devine; Tessa Dikker, Cultural Officer, Dutch Consulate, New York; Marion de Vos, Honorary Diplomatic Member of the Holland Dames; Annette van Rooy.

: Anna van Oosterom, Honorary Diplomatic Member of the Holland Dames; Dr. Suzanne Roff-Wexler; Susan Golz.

: Govert Loockermans Land Patent signed by Petrus Stuyvesant in 1664 and framed in wood from a pear tree grown on the Director General’s bouwerie.