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

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

Group of New York public school children in a school garden plot

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.

Press Release from May 1999, announcing 114 Greenthumb Gardens would be sold to the Trust for Public Land and the New York Restoration Project for $4.2 million, both nonprofit groupsthat conserves land for people to ensure livable communities and a…

Just three months after he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln issued a proclamation to reform the cotton trading system laid out in 1861. As trade grew in the Mississippi Valley in 1862 and 1863, the permit system was plagued by…

1918 Proclamation signed by John F. Hylan, the 96th Mayor of the City of the New York, declaring the punishment of any person caught destroying crops or entering gardens illegally with negative intentions.

Poster for Reclaim the Street's Festival of Resistance, June 1999

This is an edict from October 10, 1658 on the conversion rate between wampum, beaver, Dutch silver, and household commodities like beer, wine, and bread.

In this leaflet, Pennsylvania philanthropists solicited charitable donations for unemployed British textile workers. The sudden decline in the cotton supply created by the Civil War led to widespread reports of "actual or impending starvation" in…