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Spaarnestad Photo is an independent institution formerly located on the Nassaulaan in
File:Ed van Thijn 1.jpg, Ed van Thijn 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
Spaarnestad Photo is an independent institution formerly located on the Nassaulaan in Haarlem
Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...
, in the Netherlands, 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 in The Hague. The Spaarnestad Photo archives worked with the Nationaal Archief and Wikipedia to make its archives partly available with Creative Commons licenses. Well over 10,000 photographs from Spaarnestad were placed on Wikimedia Commons between 2010 and 2017.
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* {{Use dmy dates, date=August 2019 Photo archives in the Netherlands Organisations based in The Hague History of Haarlem