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Delft: Arched Bridge and Moat Make
This Burgher's Home a Castle
From the blue of the sky, reflected in its canals, Delft
takes the color of its famed china. Native son Jan
Vermeer captured the same rich azure in his paintings.
Flowers, delight of every Dutchman, blaze in the garden
of a snug brick cottage.
Kodachromes by Gilbert M. Grosvenor and Charles Neave (lower)
'l' Walcheren Islanders Jog to Church
on a Road of Handlaid Brick
Allied planes bombed Walcheren's dikes in 1944 to
flood out Nazi garrisons commanding the approaches to
Antwerp. But the island largely escaped the 1953
flood, as the presence of a grown horse implies: many
farm animals drowned wherever the waters struck.
