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Treasury agent Hanson Risley wrote to Lincoln's private secretary John G. Nicolay requesting a copy of Fergus Peniston's cotton permit. Risley was a key figure in the wartime cotton trade and was later called to testify before Congress regarding…

Destruction of the Garden of Eden in the Lower East Side, 1985

Children working in the Isham Park school garden, New York City, August 16, 1915.

Sanford, the Union's minister to Belgium, describes a reception he attended held by the French minister of foreign affairs, Edouard Thouvenel, in Paris. Thouvenel stopped Sanford to tell him that he hoped the war would end soon to reopen the free…

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.

Excerpts from a speech delivered in the senate before the civil war, South Carolina senator James Henry Hammond warned of dire consequences if the south was unable to deliver cotton to the world.

Chromogenic print, from the series "Sweet Earth: Experimental Utopias in America"

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announce agreement to enable construction of affordable housing and preservation of GreenThumb Gardens. September 17, 2002