New York Commercial Tercentenary 1614-1914
The Commercial Tercentenary of New York 1614-1914
"New Amsterdam becomes New York" - The English captured New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664 and re-named it New York in honor of the Duke of York.
In 1689 Governor Nicholson fled from New York, and Jacob Leisler assumed the reigns of government. In 1691 Leisler was hanged as a traitor, but later the stigma was officially removed.
Commercial Tercentenary of New York 1614-1914
Peter Stuyvesant, the fourth and most famous of the Dutch Governor - Generals was appointed in 1647. It was his lot to be obliged to surrender New Netherland to the English in 1664.
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Bowling Green, at the foot of Broadway, is the oldest park in New York City. It had been used as a public place for many years, when in 1732 it was laid out especially as a bowling green.
[Appointment of Hardinge Scholle to the Mayor's Committee for the commemoration of the Golden Jubilee of the City of New York.]
New York Stock Exchange
Thomas Dongan, Earl of Limerick, by royal permission granted to the people of New York the famous Dongan Charter in 1683.
Herald Square, New York
Greatest New York
"The Dutch Doorway." - This picture respresents a Dutch doorway in New Amstersdam, a prominent resting place for family and social purposes in those days.
Lower Broadway N. Y. City
New York City 1926 [Tercentenary of the purchase of Manhattan Island.]
Mayor's Honorary Committee. New York City Shakespeare Tercentenary Celebration 1616-1916