‘This is our house’ Volume 2 Real photo postcards of The Hague and Scheveningen, 1900-1940

Zeestraat near Bazarstraat in 1902 (collection of The Hague Municipal Archives).		Hoogeveen company at Veenkade, 1913 (collection of R. van Harrewijn).

‘This is our house’. The most beautiful real photo postcards of The Hague and Scheveningen was published in 1997 and has been reprinted at the end of 2000. So many new cards have come to light that Wim de Koning Gans was able to compile a new photo book. Half of the photos are from private collections. The text is in Dutch! The cards used for the book are real photos printed on paper thick enough for postal use. They have no publisher, and only a few are stamped by the photographer. Photographers captured a row of houses or sometimes a whole street to sell the photos to the people living there. Quite a few people marked their house before sending these cards (‘This is our house’). On some cards can be read that a dozen or two dozen copies had been bought. Most of these cards are very rare.

A waggon for transporting fishing nets has had an accident at Gevers Deynootweg near the Palace Hotel, c. 1910 (collection of J. Pronk).		A souvenir shop at the Scheveningen pier, c. 1913 (collection of J.H.A. Schoenmaker).		Villas designed by Mutters at Zeekant (Seaside), 1909 (collection of The Hague Municipal Archives).
Frankenslag 61-45, a card mailed by Auntie Aimée on August 14, 1912 (collection of S.P. Sluijter jr.).		A hotel and café at Lijsterbesplein 2, 1933 (collection of The Hague Municipal Archives)		Willem de Zwijgerlaan photographed from Van Slingelandtstraat to Van Boetzelaerlaan by J. Beijl, c. 1930 (collection of J. Pronk).

‘This is our house’ Volume 2  contains 127 photos of the following neighbourhoods: town centre (8), Willemspark (1), Archipelbuurt (5), Zeeheldenkwartier (3), Stations- & Rivierenbuurt (3), Schilderswijk (7), Transvaalkwartier (10), Scheveningen (20), Bezuidenhout (13), Regentesse- en Valkenboskwartier (16), Duinoord (5), Zorgvliet (1), Statenkwartier (18), Benoordenhout (3), Duttendel (1), Laakkwartier (3), Bomen- & Bloemenbuurt (9), Vogelwijk (1).

Around 1930, Joost van Aken sold potatoes, vegetables and fruit. He can be seen here at Frederik Ruyschstraat (collection of R. van Harrewijn).		Milkmen of a cooperation at Noord-West Buitensingel ready to make their round in 1914 (collection of H.A. Voet).		A potato merchant at Loosduinsekade 155-156 around 1915. The van is a Horch (collection of The Hague Municipal Archives).
Shop-assistant and amateur photographer A. Nijenhuis captured the view from his home at Wesselsstraat in May 1924 (collection of W. Pors).		In 1907, A. Oosenbrug photographed the water near Goudriaankade. In the background the gas works are under construction (collection of C. Oosenburg-van Eldik).		Havenkade near Badhuiskade at Scheveningen, with the Seinpost theatre in the background, c. 1930. In 1971 this canal was filled in. The theatre was demolished in 1976 (collection of J. Pronk).

	Maasstraat around 1930 (collection of The Hague Municipal Archives).	Javastraat 74 and 76 photographed around 1922 by C.J.L. Vermeulen (collection of G.C.A. van der Heiden).

	Taxi drivers at Buitenhof, 1920. Second from left is Karel Kuijten (collection of C. Kuijten).