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- Collection: Creating the Capital of Capital: New York City's Forgotten Dutch Beginnings
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P. Schagen, Letter on the Purchase of Manhattan
Letter from November 5, 1626 from Pieter Schagen to the States-General, Dutch West India Company Administrator, which mentions the purchase of the Island of Manhattan. The island was said to be traded with the Native Americans for goods equivalent to…
Castello Plan
Map of New Amsterdam based on an original that has since been lost, which was created in 1660 by Jacques Cortelyou who served as Surveyor General of the early Dutch colony.
New York Harbor
This is a photograph of New York Harbor today.
New Amsterdam now New York on the Island of Man[hattan]
This print of New Amsterdam was developed from an original watercolor drawing circa 1670. This image was printed in I. N. Phelps Stokes' book "The Iconography of Manhattan Island" in 1915.
Petrus (Peter) Stuyvesant
Portrait of Peter Stuyvesant, the last Director General of New Netherland. He was in office from 1647 to 1664.
Coat of Arms with Beaver
This is a draft of a coat of arms for New Amsterdam that wasn't approved. Inspired by the coat of arms for the city of Amsterdam, this design shows the imperial crown between two beavers instead of two rampant lions. This illustration first appeared…