‘This is our house’ The most beautiful real photo postcards of The Hague and Scheveningen
Vaillantlaan 1914.
The corner of Weimarstraat and Suezkade with a horse drawn bus, 1901.
Around 1900 it became possible to send a postcard with a real photo of one’s own house. Many so-called ‘photocards’ were produced. The senders often marked their own home and proudly wrote ‘his is our house’.
‘Dit is ons huis’ (‘This is our house’) offers high quality reproductions of real photo postcards of houses and streets in The Hague and Scheveningen between 1900 and 1940. It contains photographs of the city centre and the following neighbourhoods: Willemspark, Zeeheldenbuurt, Stationsbuurt, Archipelbuurt, Schilderswijk, Transvaal, Scheveningen, Belgisch Park, Van Stolkpark, Bezuidenhout, Regentessekwartier, Valkenboskwartier, Duinoord, Statenkwartier, Benoordenhout, Laakkwartier, Bomen- & Bloemenbuurt
Hofwijckstraat seen from Hofwijckplein, c. 1913.
Torenstraat between Kleine Nobelstraat and St. Jacob’s Church (Grote Kerk), c. 1910. The houses to the right were pulled down in 1920 to broaden the street.
Charlotte de Bourbonstraat 1914 - these houses were destroyed when the English mistakenly dropped bombs on the Bezuidenhout neighborhood on March 3 1945.
Café of G. van der Lelij at Trekweg, 1910.
The hot water shop of Gerrit Kornet at Vinkensteynstraat opened its doors in 1911.
Balistraat c. 1903. The house of horse dealer A.G.J. Mulder had been designed in 1881 by Johannes Mutters jr.
The corner of 1e Sweelinckstraat and Van Blankenburgstraat on a card sent in june 1903.
Hoefkade 527-549 under construction in 1910.
Seinpoststraat in 1908 on an amateur photograph by C. Simons-Wesseling.
About the book
132 pages of 22.3 cm h x 24.0 cm w (8.8 x 9.5 inches)
hard cover, photos in FM screening
Compiled and written by Wim de Koning Gans
Publisher: Uitgeverij De Koning Gans
ISBN 90-803208-2-X
Price: € 19.95 for international customers
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These brand new premises at Weimarstraat 191-173 were photographed in 1912.
Children from the Statenkwartier neighborhood posing at Johan van Oldenbarneveltlaan around 1930.
The house in the middle is Jan van Nassaustraat 35, an art nouveau building designed by J. Mutters in 1899.
‘Dit is ons huis’ plays a part in ‘Levensnevel’ (‘Mist of Life’), a book of short stories published in 1999 by the well-known Dutch writer Kees van Kooten:
‘... four months before he died, Gé, my fathers younger brother, wrote me an excited letter: a new photo book with pictures of Old The Hague had appeared, that I should buy right away! Page thirty-seven, and would I please return immediately the first day envelope I had just received this letter in, for his collection. I held my breath not to dim the magnifying glass. For the first time I saw my father at the age of four. Photographs we did not know before make our deceased live again for a little while. My infant father has my frown. From this bay-window he waved goodbye to his own father.’
This is the photograph on page 37 of ‘This is our House’. Around 1915, the Van Kooten family lived at the corner of Hoefkade and Christiaan Bruningsstraat in The Hague, above a confectioner’s shop. In the front row are (from left) Trijntje van Kooten-van Baerle and her children Gé (1911-1998) and Bill (1909-1979), the father-to-be of Kees van Kooten.
This is the photograph on page 37 of ‘This is our House’. Around 1915, the Van Kooten family lived at the corner of Hoefkade and Christiaan Bruningsstraat in The Hague, above a confectioner’s shop. In the front row are (from left) Trijntje van Kooten-van Baerle and her children Gé (1911-1998) and Bill (1909-1979), the father-to-be of Kees van Kooten.
