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Other Volunteer Activities
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Iconographic Collection
October 2009 - still on-going
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The volunteers started working on a new project at the City Archives
(now called the Felixarchives) in October 2009. It concerns an
iconographic collection of documents about Antwerp in general. The
project is done under the guidance of Werner Pottier and Joost
Depuydt (collection managers at the city archives). We have to
check the old inventory numbers, give new numbers, measure the
documents, check their condition and pack the documents in different
sized (from A4 to A0), acid free paper. To check the condition of
the documents, we received examples and looked at pictures in a
specialized book, which will stay with us at our assigned large
working table. |
Sorting the documents by size |
Above: 6 volunteers working at the long table.
Right: Measuring the documents |
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The first documents were architectural plans of the quay walls along
the ‘Schelde’, the iron covers on the quays, the quays of the
‘Bonaparte’ and ‘Willem’ docks, the surrounding buildings, the
cranes, the lock and the plans of the first enlargement of the
dockland to the north and the connection to the Albert Canal. In
December, we started with an iconographic collection on old Antwerp
cloister buildings and lately we came about a collection of
architectural plans of the Central Station, first called
‘Ooststatie’ because it was build to the east of the city walls. All
very interesting! |
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Above: Taking a break in the cafeteria.
Right: Checking the old inventory. |
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We are glad to have found one of our new volunteers to be
very knowledgeable in
paper types and paper restoration.
Right: Drawing of a corner house with writing in old Dutch. |
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Above: The entrance to Central Station in Antwerp. |
Above: Drawing of the bridge of the river Rupel at Boom. |
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Above: wintry scenes from the cafeteria.
We continue to work on Thursday mornings from 9.30 to 12.30, with
a coffee break in the cafeteria with the marvellous view over the
‘Willem’ dock, the MAS (still under construction) and the
‘Kattendijk’ dock.
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