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Stuyvesant Pear Tree

Stuyvesant Pear Tree

Third Avenue and 13th Street [First Avenue to Third Avenue]

Third Avenue and 13th Street [First Avenue to Third Avenue]

Stuyvesant Pear Tree, 1856

Stuyvesant Pear Tree, 1856

Third Avenue and 13th Street [First Avenue to Third Avenue]

Third Avenue and 13th Street [First Avenue to Third Avenue]

untitled [Lanscape view]

untitled [Lanscape view]

Plays, "Peter Stuyvesant".

Plays, "Peter Stuyvesant".

[Shaded field]

[Shaded field]

[Statue of Peter Stuyvesant.]

[Statue of Peter Stuyvesant.]

[Entrance to the Stuyvesant Polyclinic, 137 Second Avenue.]

[Entrance to the Stuyvesant Polyclinic, 137 Second Avenue.]

[Ornamentation above the entrance to the Stuyvesant Polyclinic, 137 Second Avenue.]

[Ornamentation above the entrance to the Stuyvesant Polyclinic, 137 Second Avenue.]

A Map of Bowery and Petersfield Farm, the Property of Petrus Stuyvesant Esq.

A Map of Bowery and Petersfield Farm, the Property of Petrus Stuyvesant Esq.

[Shaded field.]

[Shaded field.]

Stuyvesant.

Stuyvesant.

[Winter woods.]

[Winter woods.]

[Boat on the Hudson River.]

[Boat on the Hudson River.]

Tree of Hope

Tree of Hope

[Busts of Roman and Greek physicians on the façade of the Stuyvesant Polyclinic, 137 Second Avenue.]

[Busts of Roman and Greek physicians on the façade of the Stuyvesant Polyclinic, 137 Second Avenue.]

[West 192nd Street apartment building.]

[West 192nd Street apartment building.]

First Avenue between 15th and 16th Streets [First Avenue to Third Avenue]

First Avenue between 15th and 16th Streets [First Avenue to Third Avenue]

[Portrait of William Davis Hassler.]

[Portrait of William Davis Hassler.]

[Plaque for Peter Stuyvesant's pear tree.]

Photographer William Davis Hassler
Accession number 2001.35.1.80 
Unique identifier MNY53146 
Description View of a tablet on a building at the northeast corner of 3rd Ave. and 13th St. which commemorates the location where a pear tree Peter Stuyvesant planted once stood.  The tablet reads: "On this corner grew Petrus Stuyvesants' pear tree.  Recalled to Holland in 1664 on his return he brought the pear tree and planted it as his memorial by which said he "my name may be remembered."  The pear tree flourished and bore fruit for over two hundred years.  The tablet is placed here by the Holland Society of New York, September 1890" 
Dated ca. 1917 
Object Type photograph
Inscription / technical details Embossed on recto: Wm. D. HASSLER / NEW YORK; in ink, on verso: Tablet on the Building at North East / corner of 3d Avenue & 13th Street, commemorative / of the Peter Stuyvesant Pear Tree which / Stoo 
Physical dimensions height: 8.5 in
width: 6.5 in 
Medium gelatin silver print
Signif Assoc Peter Stuyvesant (1592-1672)
File dimensions 13.3 in × 17.5 in at 300dpi
33.9 cm × 44.5 cm at 300dpi 

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