Purchase of Manhattan Island from the Indians, 1626: The First Big Real Estate Deal
Fort Hamilton Ave., Fort Hamilton, N. Y.
[The Purchase of Manhattan Island from the Indians.]
In 1626, Peter Minuit, the first Dutch Governor - General of New Netherland, purchased all of Manhattan Island from the Indians for the equivalent of $24.00.
Lower Manhattan 1609 as Hudson First Saw It.
An Indian Village of the Manhattans
The Little Church Around the Corner, New York
Statue of Liberty, New York
Purchase of Manhattan Island from the Indians
Bedford Corners, 1777.
The Flag of Thirteen Stripes, the Standard of the United States....
The Dutch Garden, Van Cortlandt Park, N. Y.
The Tower by Night Dreamland, Coney Island, N. Y.
The Tower by Night, Dreamland, Coney Island, N. Y.
Shooting the Chutes, Luna Park, Coney Island, N. Y.
The Iroquois used to fight against each other until Hiawatha told them to call representatives from all the tribes to a great council to be held on the banks of Onondaga Lake.
In 1692 Col. Peter Schuyler took five Iroquois chiefs to London. The Indians were objects of intense interest at the Court of St. James.
The Tea-Tax Tempest, or the Angelo-American Revolution.