By Jen Vos
Collection Overview
Title: Willem Van de Wall and Blanca Crooswijk Van de Wall Collection, 1856-1939
ID: COLL/585
Creator: Van de Wall, Blanca Crooswijk (1882-1940)
Extent: 10.7 Cubic Feet. More info below.
Arrangement: Folder level description
Languages: English [eng], Dutch;Flemish [nld]
Abstract
The Willem Van de Wall and Blanca Crooswijk Van de Wall Collection consists of a series of letters and photographs from members of the Van de Wall family from 1856-1939. Subjects of the letters include Willem Van de Wall, a harpist who contributed to the field of music therapy.
Scope and Contents of the Materials
The Willem Van de Wall and Blanca Crooswijk Van de Wall collection consists of personal letters and photographs spanning 9 decades and 83 years. This collection is significant in part because Willem Van de Wall’s significant contribution to the field of music therapy. It is also significant due to the insights into daily life in both the Netherlands and the United States at that time.
The photograph collection provides snapshots of daily life, fashion, and material culture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Biographical Note
Blanca Flora Crooswijk was born October 22, 1882 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands to Carolina and Jozua Crooswijk. Blanca was one of three daughters. She married Johan Beijerman (1879-1959) in 1904 and the following year they had a son, Jaap, in 1905. Their daughter, Lien, was born in 1908. They later divorced, then Blanca married Willem van de Wall, who had two sons with Helena Adolfona Fruman, Wasili in 1913 and Roel in 1915. Blanca Crooswijk Beijerman and Van de Wall emigrated to America (October 1915) and were married January 14, 1917. Blanca travelled back to the Netherlands to care for her aging father (1921-1923). She would subsequently make regular trips back to Holland and maintained close correspondence with her Dutch family. Together the Van de Walls had two daughters, Blanca (born 1/17/17) and Wilhemini (born 3/30/1919). During their marriage they lived in Patchoque, Long Island, New York, and Allentown, Pennsylvania. In Allentown she was affiliated with the YMCA, the Lutheran Church, and Order of the Eastern Star. Willem and Blanca divorced in 1929. In 1938 she was diagnosed with breast cancer from which she died in the Hague, Netherlands, January 30, 1940.
Administrative Information
Alternate Extent Statement:
19 boxes
Access Restrictions:
<span style="color: rgb(16, 55, 93); font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px;">This collection is open for research use within Heritage Hall.</span>
Acquisition Method:
Donation
Preferred Citation:
<span style="color: rgb(16, 55, 93); font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px;">[item], folder, box, Willem Van de Wall and Blanca Crooswijk Van de Wall Collection, Heritage Hall (Hekman Library), Calvin University</span>
Box and Folder Listing
- Box 1
- Folder 1: Biographical and Summary Information
- Folder 2: Van de Wall Letters (also Crooswijk, Bezoet de Bie, Beijerman) --- 1856-1909
- Folder 3: Van de Wall Letters (also Crooswijk, Bezoet de Bie, Beijerman) --- 1856-1909
- Folder 4: Van de Wall Letters (also Crooswijk, Bezoet de Bie, Beijerman) --- 1856-1909
- Folder 5: Van de Wall Letters (also Crooswijk, Bezoet de Bie, Beijerman) --- 1856-1909
- Folder 6: Van de Wall Letters (also Crooswijk, Bezoet de Bie, Beijerman) --- 1856-1909
- Folder 7: Van de Wall Letters (also Crooswijk, Bezoet de Bie, Beijerman) --- 1856-1909
- Folder 8: Van de Wall Letters (also Crooswijk, Bezoet de Bie, Beijerman) --- 1856-1909
- Folder 9: Van de Wall Letters (also Crooswijk, Bezoet de Bie, Beijerman) --- 1856-1909
- Folder 10: Van de Wall Letters (also Crooswijk, Bezoet de Bie, Beijerman) --- 1856-1909
- Folder 11: Van de Wall Letters (also Crooswijk, Bezoet de Bie, Beijerman) --- 1856-1909
- Box 2
- Folder 1: Van de Wall Letters (also Crooswijk, Beijerman) --- 1910-1915
- Folder 2: Van de Wall Letters (also Crooswijk, Beijerman) --- 1910-1915
- Folder 3: Van de Wall Letters (also Crooswijk, Beijerman) --- 1910-1915
- Folder 4: Van de Wall Letters (also Crooswijk, Beijerman) --- 1910-1915
- Folder 5: Van de Wall Letters (also Crooswijk, Beijerman) --- 1910-1915
- Folder 6: Letters - Blanca and Marcel Lockeman (Java) --- 1913-1914
- Folder 7: Letters - Willem to Blanca --- 1914-1915
- Folder 8: Letters - Willem to Blanca --- 1914-1915
- Folder 9: Letters - Blanca to Willem (orchestra tour) --- 1916
- Box 3
- Folder 1: Letters - Willem to Blanca (orchestra tour) --- 1916-1917
- Folder 2: Letters - Willem to Blanca (orchestra tour) --- 1916-1917
- Folder 3: Letters - Willem to Blanca (orchestra tour) --- 1916-1917
- Folder 4: Letters - Willem to Blanca (orchestra tour) --- 1916-1917
- Folder 5: Letters - Blanca to Willem (orchestra tour) --- 1916-1917
- Folder 6: Letters - Willem to Blanca (orchestra tour) --- 1917
- Folder 7: Letters - Willem to Blanca (orchestra tour) --- 1917
- Folder 8: Letters - Willem to Blanca (orchestra tour) --- 1917
- Box 4
- Folder 1: Van de Wall Letters - To/from Willem and Blanca --- 1919-1939
- Folder 2: Van de Wall Letters - To/from Willem and Blanca --- 1919-1939
- Folder 3: Van de Wall Letters - To/from Willem and Blanca --- 1919-1939
- Folder 4: Van de Wall Letters - To/from Willem and Blanca --- 1919-1939
- Folder 5: Van de Wall Letters - To/from Willem and Blanca --- 1919-1939
- Folder 6: Van de Wall Letters - To/from Willem and Blanca --- 1919-1939
- Folder 7: Van de Wall Letters - To/from Willem and Blanca --- 1919-1939
- Folder 8: Letters - To/from Mrs. C.C.M. Crooswijk Bezoet de Bie (Blanca's mother) --- 1915-1916
- Folder 9: Letters - To/from Mrs. C.C.M. Crooswijk Bezoet de Bie (Blanca's mother) --- 1915-1916
- Folder 10: Letters - To/from Mrs. C.C.M. Crooswijk Bezoet de Bie (Blanca's mother) --- 1915-1916
- Box 5
- Folder 1: Letters - To/from Mrs. C.C.M. Crooswijk Bezoet de Bie (Blanca's mother) --- 1917-1921
- Folder 2: Letters - To/from Mrs. C.C.M. Crooswijk Bezoet de Bie (Blanca's mother) --- 1917-1921
- Folder 3: Letters - To/from Mrs. C.C.M. Crooswijk Bezoet de Bie (Blanca's mother) --- 1917-1921
- Folder 4: Letters - To/from Mrs. C.C.M. Crooswijk Bezoet de Bie (Blanca's mother) --- 1917-1921
- Folder 5: Letters - To/from Mrs. C.C.M. Crooswijk Bezoet de Bie (Blanca's mother) --- 1917-1921
- Folder 6: Letters - To/from Mrs. C.C.M. Crooswijk Bezoet de Bie (Blanca's mother) --- 1917-1921
- Folder 7: Letters - To/from Mrs. C.C.M. Crooswijk Bezoet de Bie (Blanca's mother) --- 1917-1921
- Folder 8: Letters - To/from Mrs. C.C.M. Crooswijk Bezoet de Bie (Blanca's mother) --- 1917-1921
- Box 6
- Folder 1: Letters - To/from Mrs. C.C.M. Crooswijk Bezoet de Bie (Blanca's mother) --- 1922
- Folder 2: Letters - To/from Mrs. C.C.M. Crooswijk Bezoet de Bie (Blanca's mother) --- 1922
- Folder 3: Correspondence with Mrs. Freida van Duysberg Crooswijk (Blanca's sister) --- 1914-1928
- Folder 4: Correspondence with Mrs. Freida van Duysberg Crooswijk (Blanca's sister) --- 1914-1928
- Folder 5: Correspondence with Mrs. Freida van Duysberg Crooswijk (Blanca's sister) --- 1914-1928
- Folder 6: Correspondence with Mrs. Freida van Duysberg Crooswijk (Blanca's sister) --- 1914-1928
- Folder 7: Correspondence with Mrs. Freida van Duysberg Crooswijk (Blanca's sister) --- 1914-1928
- Folder 8: Correspondence with Mrs. Freida van Duysberg Crooswijk (Blanca's sister) --- 1914-1928
- Folder 9: Correspondence with Mrs. Freida van Duysberg Crooswijk (Blanca's sister) --- 1914-1928
- Box 7
- Folder 1: Correspondence with Mrs. Freida van Duysberg Crooswijk (Blanca's sister) --- 1929-1938
- Folder 2: Correspondence with Mrs. Freida van Duysberg Crooswijk (Blanca's sister) --- 1929-1938
- Folder 3: Correspondence with Mrs. Freida van Duysberg Crooswijk (Blanca's sister) --- 1929-1938
- Folder 4: Correspondence with Mrs. Freida van Duysberg Crooswijk (Blanca's sister) --- 1929-1938
- Folder 5: Letters - Between Blanca Van de Wall Crooswijk and Dr. Hank De Vries (Amsterdam) --- 1928-1932
- Folder 6: Letters - Between Blanca Van de Wall Crooswijk and Dr. Hank De Vries (Amsterdam) --- 1928-1932
- Folder 7: Letters - Between Blanca Van de Wall Crooswijk and Dr. Hank De Vries (Amsterdam) --- 1928-1932
- Folder 8: Letters - Between Blanca Van de Wall Crooswijk and Dr. Hank De Vries (Amsterdam) --- 1928-1932
- Folder 9: Letters - Between Blanca Van de Wall Crooswijk and Dr. Hank De Vries (Amsterdam) --- 1928-1932
- Folder 10: Letters - Between Blanca Van de Wall Crooswijk and Dr. Hank De Vries (Amsterdam) --- 1928-1932
- Folder 11: Letters - Between Blanca Van de Wall Crooswijk and Dr. Hank De Vries (Amsterdam) --- 1928-1932
- Box 8
- Folder 1: Letters - From Aaltje Arp --- 1918-1925
- Folder 2: Letters - To Blanca Van de Wall Crooswijk from G.L. Van Lanschot Hubrecht
- Folder 3: Correspondence - Blanca Van de Wall Crooswijk with Pauline Kocher --- 1936-1937
- Folder 4: Correspondence with Abe Koueffety --- 1936-1937
- Folder 5: Letters - Between Blanca and Ruth Moffat --- 1916-1924
- Folder 6: Letters - From Ruth Moffat to Blanca --- 1925-1938
- Folder 7: Correspondence with Nancy de Silver --- 1925-1928
- Folder 8: Letters - To Blanca van de Wall Crooswijk from Katherin Wertsner --- 1928-1933
- Folder 9: Letters - To Blanca Van de Wall Crooswijk from Grace Keesler --- circa 1931-1939
- Folder 10: Letters - To Blanca Van de Wall Crooswijk from various children she befriended
- Folder 11: Correspondence with Lus Beijerman --- 1916-1932
- Folder 12: Correspondence with Joanna (Betsy) Durieux --- 1916
- Folder 13: Correspondence with Helen Hansell
- Box 9
- Folder 1: Letters to Blanca Van de Wall Crooswijk from Frik Bello --- 1932-1933
- Folder 2: Letters to Blanca Van de Wall Crooswijk from Win Slee --- 1932-1933
- Folder 3: Letters to Blanca Van de Wall Crooswijk from Blanche Lucas --- 1928
- Folder 4: Letters to Blanca Van de Wall Crooswijk from Niece Fried Feltman-Roosejaards --- 1929-1939
- Folder 5: Correspondence with Roelof Van de Wall (son of Willem)
- Folder 6: Correspondence with Wasili Van de Wall (son of Willem)
- Folder 7: Correspondence with Lien Beijerman (daughter of Blanca Van de Wall Crooswijk) --- 1917-1939
- Folder 8: Correspondence with Lien Beijerman (daughter of Blanca Van de Wall Crooswijk) --- 1917-1939
- Folder 9: Correspondence with Lien Beijerman (daughter of Blanca Van de Wall Crooswijk) --- 1917-1939
- Folder 10: Letters from Dick Van Gilse (friend of Lien Beijerman) --- 1925-1929
- Folder 11: Letters from Jaap Beijerman (son of Blanca Van de Wall Crooswijk) --- 1917-1933
- Folder 12: Letters from Jaap Beijerman (son of Blanca Van de Wall Crooswijk) --- 1917-1933
- Box 10
- Folder 1: Postcards and Notes to Daughters of Willem and Blanca --- 1916-1917
- Folder 2: Correspondence with Minnie Van de Wall (daughter of Willem and Blanca) --- 1925-1939
- Folder 3: Letters from Minny Van de Wall to Mother Blanca Van de Wall Crooswijk --- 1935
- Folder 4: Correspondence - Minny Van de Wall and Aunt Freida Van Duysberg Crooswijk --- 1933-1938
- Folder 5: Correspondence - Blanca C. Van de Wall and Aunt Freida Van Duysberg Crooswijk --- 1933
- Folder 6: Letters from Willem to Children --- 1923-1937
- Folder 7: Correspondence to Blanca C. and Minny Van de Wall --- 1934-1937
- Folder 8: Correspondence with Blanca Van de Wall (daughter and Blanca) --- 1926-1939
- Folder 9: Correspondence with Blanca Van de Wall (daughter and Blanca) --- 1926-1939
- Folder 10: Letters to Blanca C. Van de Wall from future husband Joseph Stull --- 1937
- Box 11
- Folder 1: Correspondence - Blanca Van de Wall Crooswijk with daughters Minny and Blanca at Columbia University New College --- 1936
- Folder 2: Correspondence (non-parents) with Minny and Blanca at Columbia University New College --- 1936
- Folder 3: Correspondence - Willem Van de Wall with daughters Blanca and Minny at Columbia University New College --- 1936
- Folder 4: Letters from Blanca Van de Wall Crooswijk to daughters Minnie and Blanca at Columbia University New College --- 1936-1937
- Folder 5: Letters from Blanca Van de Wall Crooswijk to daughters Minnie and Blanca at Columbia University New College --- 1936-1937
- Folder 6: Letters from Blanca Van de Wall Crooswijk to daughters Minnie and Blanca at Columbia University New College --- 1936-1937
- Box 12: Various Correspondence with Willem and Blanca --- 1916-1922
- 7 folders
- Box 13: Various Correspondence with Willem and Blanca --- 1918-1931
- 11 folders
- Box 14
- Folder 1: Various Correspondence --- 1932-1937
- Folder 2: Various Correspondence --- 1932-1937
- Folder 3: Dutch Stories by Blanca F. Crooswijk --- 1898-1916
- Folder 4: Dutch Stories by Blanca F. Crooswijk --- 1898-1916
- Folder 5: Dutch Stories by Blanca F. Crooswijk --- 1898-1916
- Folder 6: Budgets --- 1916-1917
- Folder 7: Miscellaneous Photographs
- Box 15
- Folder 1: Postcards --- 1900-1916
- Folder 2: Day Planners - Willem Van de Wall --- 1913-1914
- Folder 3: Diary and Letters - Blanca Van de Wall Crooswijk --- 1910-1915
- Folder 4: Diary and Letters - Blanca Van de Wall Crooswijk --- 1910-1915
- Folder 5: Diary and Letters - Blanca Van de Wall Crooswijk --- 1910-1915
- Folder 6: Blanca Crooswijk Beijerman - Embroidery Patterns
- Folder 7: US Marine Band Centennial Concert Program, 11 July 1998
- Folder 8: Death of Blanca Flora Crooswijk, 30 January 1940 - Obituary and Sympathy Notes
- Box 16
- Folder 1: Willem Van de Wall - Harpist NY Metropolitan Opera Orchestra - Information and Correspondence --- 1915-1917
- Folder 2: Manuskrip van "De Deserteur" - Willem Van de Wall, 12 November 1914
- Folder 3: Address - "Music as a Means of Discipline" by Willem Van de Wall --- 1920
- Folder 4: Article - "Music in Correctional Institutions" by Willem Van der Wall --- 1922
- Folder 5: Article - "Music's Mission In Correctional Personality Reconstruction" by Willem Van de Wall --- 1923
- Folder 6: Pamphlet - "Music In Correctional Institutions" by Willem Van de Wall --- 1922
- Folder 7: Pamphlet - "Music as a Means of Mental Discipline" by Willem Van de Wall --- 1923
- Folder 8: Pamphlet - "Music's Mission In Correctional Personality Reconstruction" by Willem Van de Wall --- 1923
- Folder 9: Book - The Utilization of Music in Prisons and Mental Hospitals by Willem Van de Wall --- 1924
- autographed copies for Jaap and Minny
- Folder 10: Article - "Music in the Classroom of the Problem Child" by Willem Van de Wall
- Folder 11: Address - "The Psychotherapeutic Value of Music" by Willem Van de Wall --- 1925
- Folder 12: Address - "The Important Mission of Music in the Career of the Nurse" by Willem Van de Wall --- 1928
- Folder 13: Paper - "Music for Sub-Normal Children of the Public Schools" by Willem Van de Wall --- 1929
- Folder 14: Paper - "Music in Therapy" by Dr. Willem Van de Wall --- 1944
- Folder 15: Article - "Seeing Our Job Through Predisposition of Crime in Relation to Prevention" by William Van de Wall --- 1929
- Folder 16: Book - Methodische Toepassing Der Music Bij De Behandeling van Ongeone Personen by Dr. Willem Van de Wall --- 1929
- Folder 17: Draft - "A Study of the Place of Music in Adult Life and Adult Education" by Willem Van de Wall --- 1936
- Folder 18: Sketches by Willem Van de Wall
- Box 17
- Folder 1: Book - Music In Institutions by Willem Van de Wall --- 1936
- Folder 2: Book - The Music of the People by Willem Van de Wall --- 1938
- Folder 3: Address - "Statement of Philosophy and Goals - Rural Music Project" by Willem Van de Wall --- 1939
- Folder 4: Play - "Gescheiden - Tooneslstuck in ryf Bedryven" by Willem Van de Wall
- Folder 5: Music
- Box 18: Unsorted photographs
- Box 19: Photo albums, slides, and ephemera