Chapter 7

Pictures

Photographs, prints and documents from the family archive. Click an image to see it larger.

The family

Portraits and memories of the De Kroes family in Overschie.

Engagement and wedding of Jacob de Kroes and Adriana Poot, 1909

The De Kroes family in Overschie

Family line of Jan Jacob de Kroes

De Kroes family grave, cemetery in Overschie

Melkstal Reinoord: milk is good for everyone (early 1930s)

Melkstal Reinoord sells TB-free milk at the school on the Elektroweg, Rotterdam

Melkstal Reinoord milk cart, Bovendijk, Overschie

GEKRO, a true family business: 40 years Rien de Kroes

Cornelis Rodenburg (1805 to 1873) and Adriana Zeeuw (1806 to 1893)

Roelof Adrianus de Kroes (1848 to 1918)

Johanna Maria Rodenburg (1848 to 1890)

The four De Kroes brothers: Cees, Willem, Wout and Jacob

From the family album: a De Kroes family portrait

Wout de Kroes, 50 years: the family gathered

Roek and Edith de Kroes in Agadir, early 1950s

OLTM

The company, its farmsteads and the Primula factories at the Bovendijk.

N.V. Overschiesche Land- en Tuinbouwmaatschappij, Overschie Holland, letterhead

Zestienhoven and N.V. OLTM, chronicle of area and company (J.J. de Kroes, 2018)

The Primula factories of N.V. OLTM at the Bovendijk

1917: foundation of N.V. Overschiesche Land- en Tuinbouwmaatschappij

OLTM anno 1907: tomato and cucumber greenhouses

Primula stock cubes in production

Primula products advertisement, N.V. OLTM

The five farmsteads of the company

Stained glass window from the OLTM directors building, 1917

Is there a common thread? More than 100 years of enterprise in a Dutch polder

Postcard of N.V. Overschiesche Land- en Tuinbouwmaatschappij, factories of the Primula products

Postcard written by Willem de Kroes to a machinery dealer in Amsterdam, 9 April 1919

Regulations on annual leave, sickness and military service for the office staff of N.V. OLTM

Gekro

The rendering company, its site at the Bovendijk and its expansion abroad.

GEKRO at the Bovendijk, aerial photograph

OLTM, GEKRO, housing and transport

GEKRO, the rendering company

A sperm whale in Rotterdam, brought to the destructor in Overschie (1937)

NCB rendering plant in Son

International expansion of Gekro: Orgaminer, Agadir, Morocco, 1951

Theodora's Testament, promotional film for GEKRO and NCB, 1951 — Theodora’s Testament, promotional film for GEKRO and NCB, 1951

The airport, farm Veldlust and the former GEKRO site from the air

Gekro Contact, the staff magazine, September 1969

In memoriam Jacob de Kroes, Gekro Contact, 1969

One of the halls from the Gekro period, still standing at the Bovendijk

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