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Plan and profiles of a projected storehouse for materials and equipment at fort Nieuw Amsterdam

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Plan and profiles of a projected storehouse for materials and equipment at fort Nieuw Amsterdam

Böhm, Johann Gottfried Rabanus

Title Leupe: _"Plan van een ontworpen nieuw magazijn van materialen op het fort Nieuw

Amsterdam."_

This 1791 design might be by Böhm and shows a proposed magazine to be built to house material and equipment. This was never constructed.

At the rear side the following is written: "No. 18B, Register 17, part 1, folio 89." Marked “Depôt des cartes, plans et journaux de la Marine.”

Taken from: yearly report of the defences from 31 December 1791 sent by the commander Friderici.

Scale-bar of 40 Rhineland feet = [approximately 1 : 60].

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Sources and literature

Heijer, H. den, Grote Atlas van de West-Indische Compagnie = Comprehensive Atlas of the Dutch West India Company, II, de nieuwe WIC 1674-1791 = the new WIC 1674-1791 (2012)

Groll, Temminck, De architektuur van Suriname