The Rijksdienst voor Cultureel Erfgoed [Cultureel Heritage Service] is a government organization that oversees the care for monuments, archaeology, and museums in the Netherlands.
The service has an online image bank with a range of digital images:
- Photos of monuments and archaeological sites
- Maps and original indicator tables of the cadastral registration of 1832
- Photos of collections of some museums.
I often use this image bank to find photos of churches where my ancestors worshiped or to see what the street looked like where they lived. I also use the cadastral administration to see if they owned property in 1832 and where that was located.
Many of these images are available under a Creative-Commons-Attribution-Share-Alike license and may be reused on the condition that the creator is attributed and that the resulting work is issued under the same license.
Dutch Reformed Church in Lambertschaag, Noord-Holland. Image credits: Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (CC-BY-SA)
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