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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…

Advertisement listed in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Peter Henderson & Company, which was a New York City based seed distributer

Young girls watering crops at DeWitt Clinton Park in Manhattan in September of 1902.

This letter to President Lincoln from former Congressman Samuel L. Casey was written on behalf of Fergus Peniston, a Louisiana cotton merchant seeking permission to transport his supplies to market. Support from politicians and friends of the…

Major General Samuel Curtis flatly denied any speculation, profiteering, or abuse of power in his letter to Commissary of Subsistence Richard McAllister. Curtis attributes the charges to "an infernal conspiracy" and is adamant that he never sold any…

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

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.

Article about Ulysses S. Grant's Order expelling Jews from the Department of Tennessee, Grant's military district. In the order, Grant accused Jews of "violating every regulation of trade established by the Treasury Department," including the trade…