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Notes Chapter X
Small Scale Crafts and Industries

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Sources for this chapter: Dekker (Chapter 2), Gomes Casseres (1976; 1990, & n.d.), Hartog (1968: Chapter 9), Henriquez, Nije-Statius van Eps, A. Römer, Rosalia, van Soest (1977; 1978: Chapters 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 & 13).

De Pool, pp. 173-4.

Van Soest (1978), p. 10.

Ibid, p. 111.

Ibid, p. 243.

Gomes Casseres (1976), p. 30.

Ibid, p. 23.

Sources for this section: Emmanuel & Emmanuel, Hartog (1968), Renkema (n.d.), Rosalia, van Soest (1978: Chapter 7)

Van Soest (1978), p. 173.

Ibid, p. 174.

Ibid, p. 175.

Gomes Casseres (1976), p. 18.

For a full historical description of Curaçao's furniture making see Nije-Statius van Eps, which is the main source for this section.

Nije-Statius van Eps, p. 57.

Ibid, p. 14.

16 Ibid, p. 55.

Gomes Casseres (1996) is a major source for this section, as well as Hartog (1968: Chapter 9).

Hartog (1968), p. 38.

Ibid, p. 281.

Additional source for this section: Emmanuel & Emmanuel (Chapters 22 & 23).

See Haviser (1987), p. 56.

For analysis of Curaçao's unique Dutch colonial architecture, see, among others, Bernard R. Budding, Van Punt eti Snoa: Ontstaan en groei van Willemstad, Curaçao, vanaf 1634, De Willemstad tussen 1700 en 1732 en de bouwgeschiedenis van de synagoge Mikvé Israël-Emanuel 1730-1732 ('s Hertogenbosch, Netherlands: Aldus Uitgevers, 1994) and Heny E. Coomans, et al, Building the Future from the Past: Studies on the Architecture and Historic Monuments in the Dutch Caribbean (Zutphen, the Netherlands: De Walburg Press, 1990).

Additional sources for this section: Dekker (Chapter 2), Gomes Casseres (1984).

Van Soest (1978), p. 10.

Hartog (1968), p. 285.

Van Soest (1978), p. 122.

Sources: Hartog (1968: Chapters 1, 3), van Soest (1978: Chapters 1, 3, 5).

See Haviser (1987), p. 56.

Sources: Hartog (1968: Chapter 9), van Soest (1978; Chapters 5 & 7).

Van Soest (1978), p. 120,

Ibid, p. 175.

Hartog (1968), p. 281.

Ibid, p. 280.

Sources: Gomes Casseres (1984); van Soest (1978: Chapters 7 & 9). The Chamber's meticulous Annual Reports from the early decades of the twentieth century are an especially rich source of information about the changing character of local businesses between the arrival of Shell and World War Two.

Van Soest (1978), p. 182.

Quoted in Gomes Casseres (1984), p. 40.

Van Soest (1978), p. 236.

Charles Gomes Casseres provided the description and analysis here.

Additional sources for this section: A. Römer (Chapters 1, 2 & 3).

Articles of Association of the Cooperative, quoted in van Soest (1978), pp. 172-3.

For more inforniation about the development of Curaçao's labor unions, see A. Römer (Chapters 3, 5, 6 & 7).

Source: Nije-Statius van Eps, p. 64.

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