Een bezoek aan de historisch-topografische atlas van Amsterdam. De iconografie van een stad in het gemeentearchief. (A visit at the photography archives of the city archive of Amsterdam; the iconography of a city).

The author describes the development of the Historisch-
Topografische Atlas van Amsterdam (an archive of drawings,
prints and photographs depicting Amsterdam, filed by street and
even house number), part of the Amsterdams Gemeentearchief
(municipal city archive of Amsterdam). Special attention is paid
to the photographic part of this monumental archive which
contains some 400.000 images. Since 1978 several projects have
been initiated to augment and update this collection: retired
photographers have been commissioned to print Amsterdam-related
pictures from their archives and active photographers have been
given mostly thematic assignments to document the city of
Amsterdam. Unfortunately, the catalogue of the archive has not
yet been computerized.
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