About this website
search.iisg.amsterdam is a search platform for the collections of the
International Institute of Social History
(IISH), Netherlands Economic History
Archive (NEHA), and Perscollectie (NIBG).
For practical information and answers to FAQs on accessing the collections
please see Collections.
The language switch applies to the labels on the website. The language of
the data itself does not change.
Additional information
Archives
– descriptions and inventories to archival collections of IISH, NEHA and Perscollectie (NIBG).
For Dutch archives a short description in Dutch is available, for all other
archives the short description
is in English. An inventory is available for over 1500 archives and can be
in
Dutch, English, German, French or Spanish, depending on the archives country
of origin.
The content of
over 450 collections is online available through this catalogue.
More information: iisg.amsterdam/en/collections/browsing/archives.
Books and brochures – contains records of all books and brochures in the library of IISH, NEHA, and Perscollectie (NIBG).
Serials – contains descriptions of all newspapers, journals, yearbooks, and annual reports in the collections of IISH, NEHA, and, Perscollectie (NIBG).
Visual
Documents – the image collection
held by the IISH includes about photos, negatives, and drawings. The
Institute has
one of the largest collections of posters in the Netherlands as well as
several hundred banners. In addition, the collections
include a considerable number of films, videos, and buttons. Over 275,000
images are available digitally.
There is a subject index in the thesaurus.
More information: iisg.amsterdam/en/collections/browsing/image-sound.
Music and sound - songs of struggle and protest; historical recordings, in original and published. Speeches party leaders, congresses and meetings, interviews and oral history projects.