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Beschryvinge van Nieuvv-Nederlant

Date:

1656

Object Number:

LIB.Y.1656.D

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George Washington (1732-1799)

1835
New York City Hall, front elevation

1802
Thoughts on African Colonization

1832
Madison Square Presbyterian Church

ca. 1906
Balustrade section from Federal Hall, New York

1788-1789
Plan of the Central Park, New York : Entry No. 4 in the competition

March 20, 1858
Interior of Durand's Studio at Maplewood, New Jersey

After 1878
Batter pitcher

1798
Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman

ca. 1869
Common Sense

1776
Ki On Twog Ky (also known as Cornplanter ) (1732/40-1836)

1796
Our Indian Policy

1875
Flags on 57th Street, Winter 1918

1918
Declaration of sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Society : adopted at the formation of said society, in Philadelphia, on the 4th day of December, 1833

Publication: 1848-1855
Edwin Booth as Hamlet

1870-1879
Draft wheel

ca. 1863
Central Park Competition Entry No. 29

March, 1858
Ma-Nuncue

After 1826
Wedding dress

ca. 1712 with several alterations into the 20th century
Miscegenation: the theory of the blending of the races, applied to the American white man and negro..

1864
Abraham Lincoln

April, 1865
Elisha Kent Kane, M.D. (1820-1857)

1858
The Funeral of Ulysses Grant

1885
Terms of Surrender

April 9, 1865
Medicine Man (Blackfoot): Plate 173

1866-68
Corcoran Legion Fifth regiment. Col. William McEvily. A few good men are wanted to fill up Capt. Wm. L. Monegan's company. This is a splendid opportunity for young men to join a Crack Regiment.

ca. 1862
The Child's Anti-Slavery Book

1859
Fuller (Flat Iron) Building, New York

1903
Tammany Bank

ca. 1875
American Ornithology; or The Natural History of the Birds of the United States

1880
Geometrical Lathe-work Proof
Cake board

1825-1835
The N. O. massacre

1866
"St. Nicholas. Dec. 6th. A.D. 343"

1810
Negro Life at the South

1859
Indenture of Peter van Dyck and Cornelia, his Wife, Documenting the Administration of Margrieta van Varick's Estate

September 4, 1719
The Assassination of President Lincoln, at Ford's Theater, Washington D.C. April 14th 1865

1865
American Bastille
Camp scene from photograph

ca. 1861-1865
Fire engine condenser case of the Clinton Fire Company No. 41

ca. 1842
The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands
Pastoral Scene by Andrew R. Smith

1822
Slave shackles

ca. 1866
A Song for the times, or John Brown

1860-1870
Old Christmas : from the Sketch book of Washington Irving

1878
View from Cozzen's Hotel Near West Point, N.Y.

1863
Life studies of the Great Army

1876
Provisional Constitution and Ordinances for the People of the United States

1858
Important meeting of the African Civilization Society, at the Cooper Institute, Wednesday evening, March 7th, 1860, at eight o'clock

1860
Astor House

ca.1853-1859
Chaise (side chair)

1779
Journael Gehouden opt’ schip den gulden Bever en tschip den gulden Otter van de Manathans naer Patria Ende Wedrom naer de Manathans (Journal kept aboard the Ship the Golden Beaver and the Ship the Golden Otter from the Manhattans to Patria and the return)

October 1660- June 1663
Petition from Lydia Heckle to Marinus Willett, Mayor of New York, re: Miranda expedition, May 16, 1807

1807
Salver

1772-1773
"Columbia Demands Her Children"

1864
"A Visit from St. Nicholas"

1862
Atom Bomb Hits New York City: Illustration for "Hiroshima, U.S.A." in Collier's, 5 August 1950, cover

1950
Petition to Abraham Lincoln for recruitment of black troops

ca. 1862
Punch bowl: Landing of Lafayette

1840-1850
Properties, Including Vacant Plots, Foreclosed in Manhattan During 1930-1931-1932

March 29, 1933
Broadway, A.T. Stewart Dry Goods Store

1851
Architect's Sign

ca. 1837
Manhattan Rifles!

1861-1865
Fragment of the equestrian statue of King George III (tail)

1770-1776
A journall, with observations on my travail from Boston in N.E. to N.Y., New Jersies, & Philadelphia...

1697
Front View of St. Peter's Church with the intended steeple

1785
Panoramic View of New York City (in Eight Sections)

1842-45
The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant

1885-1886
Santa Claus and his Works

1870
Portrait of an Unidentified Woman

ca. 1700-1725
The Rail Candidate

1860
Mrs. Charles A. Lamb (1829-1893)

1878
Wonderful Willie! : What he and Tommy did to Spain / sketches and rhymes by L.D. Bradley.

ca. 1899
Great Attraction at the Masonic Hall...Joice Heth

1835
Aaron Burr (1756-1836)

1836
Untitled (Skating in Central Park, N.Y.)

ca. 1890
Wooden leg of Gouverneur Morris

ca. 1780
Ledger, 1678-1684

1678-1684
Albert Gallatin (1761-1849)

ca. 1849
Kast

1675-1690
Ye book of copperheads

1863
Fraktur: Birth and Baptism certificate of Joseph Flor

1811
Cayambe

1858
Politicians measuring Lincoln's shoes

March 5th 1864
Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804)

ca. 1793
Get off the track! : a song for Emmancipation, sung by the Hutchinsons, respectfully dedicated to Nath.l P. Rogers, as a mark of esteem for his intrepidity in the cause of human rights

1844
The Course of Empire: Desolation

1836
Fete to Lafayette

1824
The Indian Hunter

1860
Poems, Henricus Selyns

1659-1686
Receipted bill, John Vernon to Benjamin White

1794
Brandywine bowl (brandewijnkom)

ca. 1700
Fort Hamilton Polka Redowa

1852
Cake board

1825-1835
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

1805
I Knew Him Horatio

1864
Memorial sample card
Walker's Appeal, In Four Articles

1829
Dish: footed compote with cover

1825-1845
Artistic Houses: being a series of interior views of a number of the most beautiful and celebrated homes in the United States

1883 - 1884
Armchair

1785-1789
Totius Neobelgii Nova Et Accuratissima Tabula

After 1674
Mayor George B. McClellan at the controls of the first subway train, October 27, 1904

1904
Chatelaine

ca. 1761
The Lost Cause

1871
The Course of Empire: Destruction

1836
Abraham Lincoln, the Martyr, Victorious
Southern Chivalry - Argument versus Club's

1856
Armchair

1856-1857
Lady Arthur Paget (Minne Stevens) dressed for the Delmonico ball, 1875

1875
William Pitt, the Elder, First Earl of Chatham (1708-1778)

ca. 1770
Novi Belgii Novaque Angliae Nec Non Partis Virginiae Tabula

After 1655
Matthew Perry

ca. 1855
Grenadier cap

1740-1770
At the Battle of Palo Alto

1846
Castle Garden, New York City

1859
President Lincoln at Home, Reading the scriptures to his son and wife

1865
Shrewsbury River, New Jersey

1859
Siamese Twins

1836
Baby walker

1700-1750
Mrs. Charles Walsh (nee Blood) dressed for the Vanderbilt costume ball, March 26, 1883

March 26, 1883
Pewterers' banner

1788
Beschryvinge van Nieuvv-Nederlant

1656
The definitive treaty of peace and friendship, between His Britannick Majesty, the Most Christian King, and the King of Spain : concluded at Paris, the 10th day of February, 1763, to which, the King of Portugal acceded on the same day...

1763
Afternoon Hastings Landing. Palisades Rocks in Shadow, New York

1836-37
Major Gen'l Z. Taylor Before Monterey

1848
Anna Pavlova (1881-1931)

1924
We mourn our country's loss

1865
Proposed Coat of Arms for New Amsterdam, New Netherland: Preparatory Drawing for a Presentation to the Dutch West India Company

ca. 1630
Pictorial map of New York and vicinity, showing the suburban towns, and railroad and water communications

1871
Augustus Coe Gurnee dressed for the Vanderbilt costume ball, March 26, 1883

March 26, 1883
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

1916-1922
Oud en nieuw Oost-Indiën... Volume 5, part 1 (deel 5, stuk 1)

1724-1726
Declaration of Independence

1776
Framed leaves from Abraham Lincoln's bier

1865
The Dead at Gettysburg

ca. 1863
The Peale Family

1773-1809
Freedom to the Slaves

ca. 1865
Thomas Cole (1801-1848)

ca. 1845
The Draft Riots in New York- The Battle in Second Avenue

1863
Minaret Turkish Cigarettes
Map of the Borough of Manhattan of the City of New York, showing relation between the distribution of foreign stock and negro population with the dissemination of communist and socialist propaganda during the summer of 1932

1932
Badge of the Society of the Cincinnati

ca. 1802
A Brief Description of NEW-YORK: Formerly Called New-Netherlands..

1670
An Address to the inhabitants of the British Settlements in America, upon slave-keeping

1773
Slant-front desk

1777-1794
Lincoln visits General McClellan at Antietam

1862, published later
Dragonfly table lamp

ca. 1900-1906
Come in, and Prevent a "Draft"

ca. 1863
The Bulls and Bears in the Market

1879
Parade on Broadway for McKinley & Hobart

1896
Carolina Parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis), Havell plate no. 26

c. 1825
Group of Chicago Zouave Cadets
Bank of Newburgh Bank Notes

1823-1824
Snake jug

1871
N Amsterdam, ou N Iork in Ameriq

ca. 1700
The Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown
Seated Man Writing, from the Economical School Series

c. 1810-14
Ulysses S. Grant at Cold Harbor

1864
William Walton (1706-1768)

ca. 1750
"In relation to Foreign Nations." Draft of Federalist #64

ca. 1788
Portrait of two girls
Twenty-third Street west of Sixth Avenue

1900
Stained glass window

ca. 1656
Portrait of Six Young Women Seated in a Turkish Corner
Invitation to Erie Canal Celebration

1825
Kerchief

1776-1777
Speech of His Excellency George Washington, Esq; president of the United States of America, delivered to the Honorable the Congress
An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti: comprehending a view of the principal transactions in the revolution of Saint Domingo; with its antient and modern state

1805
Subway controller

1904
Contraband Camp -- Harper's Ferry, VA

1865
Pierre Toussaint (ca. 1781-1853)

ca. 1825
Mrs. Pierre Toussaint (ca. 1786-1851)

ca. 1825
Plan of the City of New York

1776
Civil Defense Volunteer Organization Uniform

1942-1945
Brown Brothers, Irving Place, showing east side from Eighteenth Street to Gramercy Park South

March, 1909
Stained glass window

ca. 1656
Illustrations of cholera asphyxia in its different stages. Selected from cases treated at the Cholera Hospital, Rivington Street

1832
Declaration of Independence

1820-1823
I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance

1864
"Why Don't You Speak for Yourself, John?"
Undutiful Boys

1835
The True Issue or "That's What's the Matter"

1864
The Course of Empire: The Savage State

ca. 1834
The Course of Empire: The Arcadian or Pastoral State

ca. 1834
Napoleon's Authorization for the Sale of the Louisiana Territory

April 24, 1803
The Course of Empire: The Consummation of Empire

1835-1836
Dressing table

1795-1810
Settee

ca. 1800
Masonic apron

1780-1800

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