Maus (Maurits) Lieftinck’s name has already been mentioned regularly in previous blogs. Maus is one of the colleagues who picks her up in Priok when she arrives in Batavia and Maus is the one she shares a room at the museum with. In 1923, Tera worked with Maus Lieftinck on mapping the Naardermeer. Maus is […]
Two weeks ago we saw that Tera moved into a little house on the Kotta Paris. However, the stay in her house on the Kotta Paris is short-lived. The teacher recovers quickly in the mountains and at the end of March 1931, after just two months, she wants her house back. So Tera has to
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A few weeks ago we saw in the blog about family ties that Marius, Tera’s older brother, left for the Dutch East Indies in 1928. When Tera arrives in the Indies, Marius meets her up at the harbor and shows her around Batavia, where he lived as a child. She was only one year old
In previous blogs we read about Tera’s adventures in the Dutch East Indies. She is completely settled, goes on excursions, works and goes out with colleagues and friends. Tera is on one year of unpaid leave from the municipality of Amsterdam to go to the Indies, which means that she is expected back in January
The previous blogs were about the excursions, the fun and the outings. It would almost make you forget that Tera went to the Indies in the first place to work. And she does work. She writes in September 1930: The adventures of this week are not many and wonderful, I spent all those days in
Last time we saw that Tera is now properly installed. She works, lives, parties and goes on excursions. Special excursions are those to Tjibodas. Tjibodas is the mountain station that is part of Land’s botanical garden. Tjibodas was added to the botanical garden by Melchior Treub in order to be able to research the mountain
Last time we saw that Tera moved into hotel Dibbets in Buitenzorg, on April 1, 1930. The intention is that she will move to the house of Docters van Leeuwen in mid-May when he leaves for the Netherlands for eight months. And that happens, but first they have to say goodbye properly to Docters van
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Last week we saw that Tera started her work at the Zoological museum. She spends her free time exploring her surroundings. Her bike has been put back together and she explores Buitenzorg and the immediate surroundings on her bike: I cycled with Betje Polak along the “Vecht”, which here indicates a nice path along a
.After her first steps on East Indies soil, Tera now really has to get to work. She starts her work at the Zoological Museum (see image below) in the Botanic Garden, which in her view could be much better organized, but she finds it too pedantic to give advice for improvement immediately in her first
Last week we saw that Tera has arrived in the Dutch East Indies. With the exception of the climate, the Indies in the 1930s hardly differed from the Netherlands, at least for the white Dutch elite. Of course, that tropical climate influences working hours, for example, but manners, entertainment options, etc. are almost identical. Rice
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