Dit is onze hoofdstad Amsterdam

Black-and-white photographs of Amsterdam by Cas Oorthuys, paired with a text by Han G. Hoekstra. The book is a small-format city portrait of the Dutch capital in the early 1950s. It is a collaboration between a writer and a photographer, not a monograph by a single author. The first printing was issued by Contact in Amsterdam and Antwerp in 1952, in a compact format of about 12 x 18.5 cm. The title was reprinted several times, with later printings running to the 1950s and 1960. This copy is the fifth printing. It should not be confused with Oorthuys's much larger later book Amsterdam, onze hoofdstad, which has a different text author and many more photographs.