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

The Castello Plan. New Amsterdam in 1660.

Charles Dana Gibson by Olive Bigelow Pell, 1918

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

"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.

1653-1664 Amsterdam in New Netherland

The New York City Hall of 250 years ago.

Plan of New Amsterdam about 1644

New York, as Carwitham Engraved it in 1739

Broadway in 1865.

Plan of New York

Theatre, Washington, Amsterdam Ave. & 149th Street, Interiors.