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Major General Nathaniel P. Banks wrote to Lincoln in late 1863 to urge caution in the cotton trade. Banks was adamant that no amount of profit could counterbalance the certain wrong of finding "the munitions of war furnshed [sic] to the Rebels."

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 photograph of New York Harbor today.

Young boys tending to garden plot on First Avenue. Chrysler Building can be seen in background.

Wood nutmeg grater carved with male figure, basket of tulips and scrolled foliated designs; pierced iron grater inset on opposite side. This item from New Netherland illustrates that the settlement traded for spices not native to the area.

Green Guerillas Fact Sheet: Two Seed Grenade Recipes or How to Hide Illegal Dumping Space

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…

Park Association President Whitney North Seymour Jr., circa 1965, explaining the concept of using vacant lots to create 'vest-pocket parks.'

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

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