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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.

This is a drawing of New York City Hall.

Believed to be a portrait of Adriaen van der Donck, a political leader in New Netherland. The provenance of this image has been questioned but there are no other existing portraits of van der Donck.

This is a photograph of New York Harbor today.

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…

This brick outline marks the the present-day site where New Amsterdam's City Hall formerly stood.

This is a photograph of the present-day site where Fort Amsterdam formerly stood.

This flagpole commemorates the 300th anniversary of the settlement of New Amsterdam.

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…

Portrait of Peter Stuyvesant, the last Director General of New Netherland. He was in office from 1647 to 1664.