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A c. 1889
etching
of
Zaandam
, a town in the
Dutch
province of
North Holland
, by
American artist
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
. A leading city in the first
Industrial Revolution
, Zaandam was home to thousands of
windmills
(as seen here) that provided power for processing
Scandinavian
wood for the
shipbuilding
and
paper
industries.
Restoration:
Lise Broer
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