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Spaarnestad Photo is an independent institution formerly located on the Nassaulaan in Haarlem, in the
File:Ed van Thijn 1.jpg,
Spaarnestad Photo is an independent institution formerly located on the Nassaulaan in Haarlem, in the Netherlands
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, whose goal is to preserve around 13 million photos. It was founded in 1985. In 2008, the photographic archives of Spaarnestad Photo were moved to the Nationaal Archief
The Nationaal Archief (NA) is the national archives of the Netherlands, located in The Hague. It houses collections for the central government, the province of South Holland, and the former County of Holland. There is also material from private ...
in The Hague
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. The Spaarnestad Photo archives worked with the Nationaal Archief and Wikipedia
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to make its archives partly available with Creative Commons licenses. Well over 10,000 photographs from Spaarnestad were placed on Wikimedia Commons
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between 2010 and 2017.
Ed van Thijn
Eduard van Thijn (; 16 August 1934 – 19 December 2021) was a Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA) and historian. He was a member of the Municipal Council of Amsterdam (1962–1971), member of the House of Representatives (1967–1981; ...
speaking in 2010 on the occasion of the release of Government photos to the public domain
File:Ed van Thijn presenteert Dagboek van een onderhandelaar, verslag van kabinetsf, Bestanddeelnr 929-5777.jpg, Ed van Thijn in 1978, on the presentation of his own book "Diary of a Negotiator", one of the released photos
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