Amsterdam Garbage Collection Prints

Vintage prints depicting scenes of garbage collectors and street sweepers in Amsterdam, complete with poems longing for community support.

Amsterdam, Wendel en Zoon, J., Netherlands, Asch-Karmans New Year's Wish 1843, New Year's wish from the Amsterdam ash cart men for the year 1843, verso - stamped, New Year's wish on behalf of the ash cart men (cart man or garbage man) in Amsterdam for the year 1837. View of the Oude Schans with the Montelbaanstoren in Amsterdam with a man emptying an ash bucket into the cart while another man collects money from the house. At the bottom a poem in two columns. On behalf of JD Farjon, the cartman of district no. 19., print, picture, New Year's greeting, prints, pictures, Frederik Muller History plates, height 330 mm, width 200 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1842 - 1843, paper, letterpress printing, woodcut, Dutch, printer
Amsterdam, Wendel en Zoon, J., Netherlands, Asch-Karmans New Year's Wish 1843, New Year's wish from the Amsterdam ash cart men for the year 1843, verso - stamped, New Year's wish on behalf of the ash cart men (cart man or garbage man) in Amsterdam for the year 1837. View of the Oude Schans with the Montelbaanstoren in Amsterdam with a man emptying an ash bucket into the cart while another man collects money from the house. At the bottom a poem in two columns. On behalf of JD Farjon, the cartman of district no. 19., print, picture, New Year's greeting, prints, pictures, Frederik Muller History plates, height 330 mm, width 200 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1842 - 1843, paper, letterpress printing, woodcut, Dutch, printer