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Literature, archival resources, materials and links relating to the history of house numbering and census.

Further reading

Anton Tantner: Addressing the Houses. The Introduction of House Numbering in Europe, in: Histoire & Mesure, 24.2009/2, pp. 7-30.
http://www.cairn.info/resume.php?ID_ARTICLE=HETM_242_0007

Rose-Redwood, Reuben/Tantner, Anton: Introduction: governmentality, house numbering and the spatial history of the modern city, in: Urban History, 39.2012/4, pp. 607-613.
http://tantner.net/publikationen/Rose-RedwoodTantner_HouseNumbering_UrbanHistory_2012-4.pdf

Rose-Redwood, Reuben/Tantner, Anton (ed.): History of Urban House Numbering, Special section of Urban History - Volume 39 - Issue 04 - November 2012

Book (in English)

House Numbers. Pictures of a Forgotten History. London: Reaktion Books, 2015.
Publisher

Books (in German)

Anton Tantner: Die Hausnummer. Eine Geschichte von Ordnung und Unordnung. Marburg: Jonas Verlag, 2007. [Table of contents, publisher]

Anton Tantner: Ordnung der Häuser, Beschreibung der Seelen. Hausnummerierung und Seelenkonskription in der Habsburgermonarchie. (=Wiener Schriften zur Geschichte der Neuzeit; 4). Innsbruck/Wien/Bozen: Studienverlag, 2007. [Table of contents, publisher]

Weblog (in German)

Adresscomptoir: Hausnummerierung - Further information on the history of house numbering

Adresscomptoir: Fotos - Further photos of historical house numbers

Version information

Gallery of House Numbers, Version 1.0, February 17, 2002
Gallery of House Numbers, Version 1.5, September 20, 2011
Gallery of House Numbers, Version 1.6, October 12, 2012
Plan and texts: Anton Tantner
Photos: Claire Fredj, Bettina Kann, Ulrike Krampl, Meike Lauggas, Sabine Schweitzer, Anton Tantner (AT), Leopoldine Tantner, Natascha Vittorelli
English translation: Roswitha Fraller

Host

University of Vienna: http://homepage.univie.ac.at/

Thanks to

Ralph Andraschek-Holzer, Christian Aspalter, Jürgen Beyer, Gerhard Dabringer, Thomas Dostal, Stefan Eminger, Claire Fredj, Elisabeth Frysak, Martina Fuchs, Martina Grečenková, Annette Grindl, Michael Hochedlinger, Bettina Kann, Ulrike Krampl, Achim Landwehr, Meike Lauggas, Gottfried Libor, Peter Mahr, Elisabeth Malleier, Wilfried Matzke, Eduard Maur, Klaus Ratschiller, Reuben Rose-Redwood, Edith Saurer, Sabine Schweitzer, Leopoldine Tantner, Oswald Überegger, Natascha Vittorelli, Bernhard Wittstock, Karl Vocelka

Contact

As the Gallery continues to expand its collection any contributions and suggestions are gratefully accepted at the following address: .