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New Year's greeting from the Amsterdam Night Watch for the year 1877

anonymous · 1876 - 1877 · letterpress printing; wood engraving; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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New Year's greeting from the Amsterdam night watch (ratelwacht) for the year 1877. Centrally a poem in four verses about the North Sea Canal, opened on 1 November 1876, and images of the West Entrance and the mouth of the North Sea Canal at IJmuiden. Subject categories within the Atlas Zeden en Gewoonten: Customs and habits in a narrower sense, Folk life, Folk publications, New Year's and Christmas greetings, Amsterdam.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description

Subjects

nieuwjaarswens print night patrol canal Noordzeekanaal IJmuiden

Credit lineNieuwjaarswens van de Amsterdamse nachtwacht voor het jaar 1877. 1876 - 1877. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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