Products of Amsterdam market in 1784 — THE FREEDOM OF THE STREETS

Some records in Naamregisters of 1784 pinpoints handled products per merchant. In this geo-visualisation, handled products are clustered into four major categories: consumable household goods, household furnishings, hardware, special services [1]. When there is no indication in the statements, we assigned those into unspecified product group as lack of input in the registers would not mean these merchants were not (important) role-players in the commercial life.

[1] The categories are evaluated as in the book of D. van den Heuvel (2007), which adopted major categorisation pattern of products in Mui and Mui (1989) to the product variations in early modern Netherlands.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Work in progress. OCR conversion by Leon van Wissen from CREATE Amsterdam, data cleaning by Demi Tuijp, data structuring, extraction and geo-visualisation by Gamze Saygi.

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