Guest - New York Commercial Tercentenary
Commercial Tercentenary of New York 1614-1914
The Commercial Tercentenary of New York 1614-1914
Mayor's Honorary Committee. New York City Shakespeare Tercentenary Celebration 1616-1916
New York City 1926 [Tercentenary of the purchase of Manhattan Island.]
"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.
The first vessel was the ship "Restless" built on the Island of Manhattan by Adrian Block in 1614 to replace the ship "Tiger," which was destroyed by fire.
Shakespeare Tercentenary 1616-1916
Philatelic Salute. New York City Tercentenary. First Day of Issue Commemorating the Opening of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
Bowling Green, at the foot of Broadway, is the oldest park in New York City. It had been used as a public place for many years, when in 1732 it was laid out especially as a bowling green.
New York Stock Exchange
In 1689 Governor Nicholson fled from New York, and Jacob Leisler assumed the reigns of government. In 1691 Leisler was hanged as a traitor, but later the stigma was officially removed.
Hudson-Fulton Centennial
Thomas Dongan, Earl of Limerick, by royal permission granted to the people of New York the famous Dongan Charter in 1683.
"The Dutch Doorway." - This picture respresents a Dutch doorway in New Amstersdam, a prominent resting place for family and social purposes in those days.
Centennial of the Evacuation of New York by the British Army