Klaas Pieter Plantinga (2 July 1846 - 17 July 1921), founder of the Plantinga Distillery. Picture from around 1900-1910.

Klaas and Ytje Plantinga in 1920, at the 50th anniversary of the company. Picture from Nieuwsblad van het Noorden, 13 May 1971.
Scan provided by Peter Mulder.

Plantinga family tree, made on the occasion of Klaas and Ytje's 50th wedding anniversary on January 15th 1921. The "Louw" at the right bottom is Louwrens Baltus Plantinga.
Scan provided by Bastiaan Plantinga.

Picture from the collection of Openbare Basisschool Kerkstraat (Public Primary School), showing two Plantingas at a very tender age. The year: 1884-1885.
1 Willem Groenier
2 Dirk Pekema
3 Gerrit Herman (Herman) Plantinga (1876-1962, who would have been about 8)
4 Lucas Kingma
5 Sjoerd Faber
6 Hette Laagland
7 Bauke Falkena
8 Heere van Wijk
9 Christiaan Nolle
10 S. de Wolf
11 I. de Wolf
12 Sj. Faber
13 Gerrit Falkena
14 Jacob Laagland
15 Jan Auke (Jan) Plantinga (1879-1896, who would have been about 6)
16 Engbertus Pekema
17 Anthon Voss
18 Simon Groenier
Picture provided by Peter Mulder.

Pieter Plantinga, Klaas Pieter Plantinga's eldest son, on a passport picture when he emigrated to the United States.
Picture provided by Bastiaan Plantinga.

Plantinga Distillery production personnel posing in the enclosed garden.
Left to right standing: K. Kingma, Y. Adema, R. Teerenstra, C. Kramer, A. Adema, U. Wassenaar, W. Vallinga.
Left to right sitting down: A. de Jong, Mrs Schuurmans-v.d. Schaaf, F. Hoogma, Ms A. v.d. Klei.
This picture originated from the 1921 photo shoot made in honour of Klaas Pieter Plantinga's 75th birthday. This birthday coincided with the company's 50th Anniversary in the wine trade. These were kindly provided by Gerrit Herman Plantinga (b. 1929, grandson of Klaas Plantinga).

The Plantinga family (probably with some personnel) in 1945, posing to celebrate the company's 75th anniversary. In the front, on the grass, are Gerrit Herman Plantinga (b. 1929) and Elisabeth Jettie Plantinga (b. 1932). Sitting behind them, from left to right, are Maria Leverland (1879-1967, the widow of Sicco Plantinga), Gerrit Herman Plantinga (1876-1962) and his wife Jetkse Dijkstra (1876-1958), Louwrens Baltus Plantinga (1902-1993) and his wife Lolkje van der Zee (1902-1993). Other people are unknown.
Picture photographed at the Sonnema (previously Sonnema/Plantinga) distillery visitors' centre, 2012, people identified by Bastiaan Plantinga (whose father is the Gerrit Herman Plantinga sitting in the front).

Gerrit Herman Plantinga (b. 1929), the man who thought up the name "Plantiac". Picture from the 1950s.
Picture provided by Bastiaan Plantinga (his son).

Gerrit Herman Plantinga (b. 1929) at Philips Natlab, where he and his co-workers thought up the name "Plantiac". Another picture from the 1950s.
Picture provided by Bastiaan Plantinga (his son).

Louwrens Baltus Plantinga in (or probably not much before) 1970.
Scan (from a 1970 newspaper clipping) provided by Peter Mulder.

PLANTINGA HOMES

The house in Huizum (neer Leeuwarden) where Klaas Plantinga's grandfather (Klaas Jans Plantinga) and his wife (Binke Hessels) used to live. The street is called "Dorp" (English "village"). The house is on the right, to the front. A picture postcard from 1905. This village is near Leeuwarden and used to be a thriving center of planting/gardening/horticultural activity. The name "Plantinga" is derived from this occupation.
Picture provided by Bastiaan Plantinga.

The same street, picture taken further back. The Plantinga house should be the third on the right after the bridge (barely visible). A picture postcard from 1905.
Picture provided by Bastiaan Plantinga.

Here, in this picture from the 1960s, the house is the second house on the left.
Picture provided by Bastiaan Plantinga.

The house in less glorious times, just prior to the 70s renovation.
Picture provided by Bastiaan Plantinga.

The house in modern times, after having been refurbished in the 1970s. The original Plantinga house is here seen split into two seperate residences. This picture was taken in 2010.
Picture provided by Bastiaan Plantinga.

This is the house at Secretaris Haitsmalaan 1 where Louwrens Baltus Plantinga and his wife moved in, just after it had been built, in 1949. Click here to see what it looked like in October 2010 (Google Streetview).
Picture provided by Bastiaan Plantinga.

The house at Secretaris Haitsmalaan 1 in March 2012. The bust in the front is not of Klaas Plantinga, rather of Titus Brandsma (born 1881 near Bolsward, educator and resistance fighter, died in Dachau in 1942).
Picture provided by Bastiaan Plantinga.

PLANTINGA GRAVES

Pieter Klazes Plantinga's (Klaas Pieter's father, 1793-1862) grave, located at the Dutch Reformed Church in Huizum.
Picture provided by Bastiaan Plantinga.

Pictures from the Plantinga family grave at Bolsward cemetery, January 2012.
Pictures provided by Johan van der Weide.