New Amsterdam in 1660 (Detail)
Bowling Green, New York.
1653-1664 Amsterdam in New Netherland
[Peter Stuyvesant and slaves arriving in New Amsterdam.]
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.
"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.
Peter Stuyvesant's Army Entering New Amsterdam
New York About 1626-8. The Hartgers View, Amsterdam, 1651
Peter Henderson & Co.
[Construction of the Empire State Building.]
Fac-simile of Plan of the City of New York in 1789.
Complete Surrender.
Map of the original grants of village lots from the Dutch West India Company to the inhabitants of New-Amsterdam (now New-York) lying below the present line of Wall Street.