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New Amsterdam. New York City. New Orange.Created by: PICRYL - Public Domain Media Search EngineDated: 1650
Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship hull, port, harbor, water way, maritime architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
In May 1624, the first settlers in New Netherland arrived on Noten Eylandt (Nut or Nutten Island, now Governors Island) aboard the ship New Netherland. Dutch West India Company wanted to protect the entrance to the Hudson River and sponsored 30 families to move from Nut Island to Manhattan Island, where a citadel to contain Fort Amsterdam was being laid out. By the end of 1625, the site had been staked out and by 1628, a small fort was built with walls containing a mixture of clay and sand. The fort also served as the center of trading activity.

In the 1630s and 1640s, New Amsterdam had a population of about 270 people. Settlers built mills and in 1642 a stone church was built within the fort. New Amsterdam received municipal rights on February 2, 1653.

On August 27, 1664, while England and the Dutch Republic were at peace, four English frigates sailed into New Amsterdam's harbor and demanded New Netherland's surrender. This was swiftly followed by the Second Anglo-Dutch War and in 1665, New Amsterdam was reincorporated under English law as New York City, named after the Duke of York (later King James II). He was the brother of the English King Charles II, who had been granted the lands.

In July 1673, during the Third Anglo-Dutch War, the Dutch briefly and quickly occupied New York City and renamed it New Orange. In 1674, the city was relinquished to the English and the name reverted to "New York".
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Man, at left. with bow and arrows seated on ground, handing beaver[?] to a woman, at right, standing. On banderole, over clouds: Nieu Amsterdam, al. New Yorck

Man, at left. with bow and arrows seated on ground, handing beaver[?] ...

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Collier's Greater New York, Petrus Stuyvesant, Governor of New Amsterdam, 1647, January 25, 1902, Price Ten Cents

Collier's Greater New York, Petrus Stuyvesant, Governor of New Amsterd...

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A draught of the coast of NEW HOLLAND and parts Adjacent

A draught of the coast of NEW HOLLAND and parts Adjacent

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Henry Hudson's Half Moon, 1609 - Public domain  engraving

Henry Hudson's Half Moon, 1609 - Public domain engraving

Ship at anchor in Hudson River, N.Y.; Indian canoes approaching. K1957 U.S. Copyright Office. Engraving by S. Hollyer. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Discov... More

John Ogilby - Novum Amsterodamum., Montanus Arnoldus 1625-1683, cartographer

John Ogilby - Novum Amsterodamum., Montanus Arnoldus 1625-1683, cartog...

Public domain image of the vintage map from NYPL Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division is one of the wo... More

Survey of a "Certain neck of land--lying upon the main, and adjoining upon Harlem River."

Survey of a "Certain neck of land--lying upon the main, and adjoining ...

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DINNER TO THE COMMANDER & OFFICERS OF ROYAL NETHERLAND'S VAN SPEYK [held by] THE HOLLAND SOCIETY OF NEW YORK [at] "FORT ORANGE CLUB, ALBANY, NY" (OTHER (CLUB);)
Novum Amsterodamum. - Public domain dedication image

Novum Amsterodamum. - Public domain dedication image

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A description of the Towne of Mannados or New Amsterdam : as it was in September 1661, lying in latitude 40 de: and 40 m:, anno Domini 1664.

A description of the Towne of Mannados or New Amsterdam : as it was in...

Public domain image of the vintage map from NYPL Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description. The Lionel Pincus and Princ... More

The De Peyster mansion in Queen Street.

The De Peyster mansion in Queen Street.

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Hudson Fulton Celebrations at Troy, N. Y.- 9 October, 1909

Hudson Fulton Celebrations at Troy, N. Y.- 9 October, 1909

The Hudson–Fulton Celebration from September 25 to October 9, 1909 in New York and New Jersey was an elaborate commemoration of the 300th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s discovery of the Hudson River and the 100t... More

Novi Belgii - Virginia - Public domain vintage map

Novi Belgii - Virginia - Public domain vintage map

Collection of early maps from various sources by BibliOdyssey.

Partie orientale du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France : ou sont les provinces, ou pays de Sagvenay, Canada, Acadie etc., les peuples, ou nations des Etechemins, Iroquois, Attiquameches etc., auec la Nouvelle Angleterre, la Nouvelle Ecosse, la Nouvelle Yorck, et la Virginie, les isles de Terre Neuve, de Cap Breton etc., le Grand Banc etc.

Partie orientale du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France : ou sont les prov...

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Old Peter Stuyvesant on the cover of the Fall style book

Old Peter Stuyvesant on the cover of the Fall style book

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The figurative map of Adriaen Block - Public domain map
Afbeeldinge van de Stadt Amsterdam in Nieuw Neederlandt.

Afbeeldinge van de Stadt Amsterdam in Nieuw Neederlandt.

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New Yorke : 1695 - Public domain vintage map

New Yorke : 1695 - Public domain vintage map

Facsim. of ms. original in British Library. "By permission from the New York History Co." Original version: [1696?]. Includes index to points of interest. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site... More

North view of the dock New York 1679

North view of the dock New York 1679

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Redraft of the Castello plan. - Public domain map

Redraft of the Castello plan. - Public domain map

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New Amsterdam about 1650 - Public domain  engraving

New Amsterdam about 1650 - Public domain engraving

Publication of the Society of Iconophiles, Series ix, no. 6. Engraved by Sidney Lawton Smith from a painting in the New York Historical Society. (Source: Catalogue of the Engravings Issued by the Society of Ico... More

Hudson Fulton Celebrations - 1909

Hudson Fulton Celebrations - 1909

The Hudson–Fulton Celebration from September 25 to October 9, 1909 in New York and New Jersey was an elaborate commemoration of the 300th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s discovery of the Hudson River and the 100t... More

120 William Street.  The Rigging House.

120 William Street. The Rigging House.

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Mexico / Mauritiopolis / Mauritiopolis / Nieuw Amsterdam / S. Salvador / Bvones Aires / Capvt S. Avgustini / Boa Vista

Mexico / Mauritiopolis / Mauritiopolis / Nieuw Amsterdam / S. Salvador...

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Caert vande Svydt Rivier in Niew Nederland.

Caert vande Svydt Rivier in Niew Nederland.

Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Shows the region of the Delaware Bay and river, natural features, and other geographical entities. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Attributed to Joan Vinckeboons... More

Manatvs gelegen op de Noot [sic] Riuier.

Manatvs gelegen op de Noot [sic] Riuier.

Manuscript. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Covers New York City region. Pictorial map showing buildings and points of interest. Depths shown by soundings. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as... More

Virginia Nieu Neder-landt.  Nieu Engelandt.
R.M.S. Nieuw Amsterdam - Restaurant menu
Henry Hudson The celebrated and unfortunate navigator, abandoned by his crew in Hudson's Bay the 11th of June 1610 / / Drawn by F. Davignon ; Lith. of Lewis & Brown, 37 John St. N.Y.

Henry Hudson The celebrated and unfortunate navigator, abandoned by hi...

Print shows Henry Hudson, his son John, and seven crew members adrift in a small boat after the mutiny of the crew of the Discovery, which is sailing away in the Hudson Bay. Library of Congress copy is trimmed... More

Noort Rivier in Niew Neerlandt. - Public domain old map

Noort Rivier in Niew Neerlandt. - Public domain old map

Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Shows the Hudson River from Manhattan Island to Albany, natural features, and other geographical entities in the region. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Attribut... More

View of Harlaem from Morisania in the province of New York Septemr. 1765

View of Harlaem from Morisania in the province of New York Septemr. 17...

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Nieu Amsterdam, een stedeken in Noord Amerikaes Nieu Hollant, op het eilant Mankattan, namaels Nieu Jork genaemt, toen het geraekte in 't gebiet der  Engelschen = Amstelodamum recens, postea Anglis illud possidentibus dictum Eboracum novum, Hollandiae novae, id est Americae Mexicanae sive septentronalis oppidulum

Nieu Amsterdam, een stedeken in Noord Amerikaes Nieu Hollant, op het e...

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Smoke Blackwell's Durham, an incident in the history of New Amsterdam (old New York)

Smoke Blackwell's Durham, an incident in the history of New Amsterdam ...

23840 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Giles Litho., lithogr... More

Partie orientale du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France : ou sont les  provinces, ou pays de Sagvenay, Canada, Acadie ... auec la NouvelleAngleterre, La Nouvelle Ecosse, la Nouvelle Yorck, et la Virginie ...

Partie orientale du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France : ou sont les pro...

Public domain image of a vintage map, geography atlas, maritime navigation, age of discovery, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

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