New Amsterdam in 1660

New Amsterdam, 1660, from the East River. (Scale Model)

Bowling Green, 1831, Showing First Omnibus Used in New York (Scale Model)

"Liberty Enlightening the World". Edward Moran, 1886.

Peter Stuyvesant Defying the English who Demanded the Surrender of New Amsterdam, 1664.

Laying the First Submarine Cable, 1842

Bowling Green, New York.

The Battery, New York, 1847

Seth Low's Great Speech at Cooper Union

Charles Dana Gibson by Olive Bigelow Pell, 1918

New York About 1626-8. The Hartgers View, Amsterdam, 1651

The Castello Plan. New Amsterdam in 1660.

The New York City Hall of 250 years ago.

"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.

Broadway in 1865.

1653-1664 Amsterdam in New Netherland

New York, as Carwitham Engraved it in 1739

Plan of New York

Fraunces Tavern Restaurant

Erie Canal Celebration, New York, November 4th, 1825.