Identifier: oldnewyorkyester00brow (find matches)
Title: Old New York yesterday & today
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Brown, Henry Collins, 1862-1961
Subjects: Historic buildings
Publisher: New York : Priv. print for Valentine's Manual and to be sold at the Sign of the Dog and Duck
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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Courtesy Netv York Historical Society ®IjE <3ftrst ^iE&i of ^eia ^ctrk, 1626-S The first view of New York ever shown to the world. Date depicted, i6a6-8. It was drawn by Kryn Fredericks, engineer of Fort Amsterdam,and for years hung in Peter Stuyvesants Council Room in the Stadt House. It was finally sent to Holland, and rescued from oblivion byAdriaen Van der Donck, who used it in the first book written on New Amsterdam, and published by Joost Hartgers, Amsterdam, in 1651.It is known as the Hartgers View. The star shaped structure is the Fort, the site of which is now occupied by our present Custom House.
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► Hamilton Maxwell ®I;e ^ame ^ocatitm ®obao, 1922 View of New York today showing theexact location depicted in the first or Hartgers View above. The Fort stood where the CustomHouse stands today. Skyscrapers replace the little houses clustered outside the Fort in the first picture. The open space at left isBattery Park; Aquarium at extreme left edge; foreground, tall structure, Whitehall building, where is the Government WeatherBureau. The two ferry slips, middle, are owned by the City, operating boats to Staten Island. At left is the Barge Office whereemigrants are landed from Ellis Island. Captured rum runners caught by the Revenue Service, are anchored in slip next theBarge Office. This view covers the entire Financial section of New York.

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