finally i found the book with the drawings of all the houses in the quarter of amsterdam called the 'jordaan'. in 1978 every facade of the houses was measured and drawn in detail at a scale of 1:200 - they made a book of it reducing the scale to 1:400 - a total of 28000 meters of facades was drawn. the best thing is that there is a map with all the house numbers on it too, which makes it possible to find additional information in the online amsterdam archives. this way you can find photographs (from different periods) and even drawings of several houses, giving even more detail. this is what the images in the book look like. my scan and scaling makes them look poor of course, but i needed big images. this is the corner i am working on at the moment. (corner prinsengracht/brouwersgracht)

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