This is the earliest known map of New Amsterdam, which was later renamed New York, created in 1660 by Jacques Cortelyou, the General Governor of Nieuw Amsterdam at that time. It is the only map dating from the Dutch period of the city's history. The text at the top of the image reads: 'Image of the city Amsterdam in New Netherland. A redraft of the 1660's Castello Plan of New Amsterdam, completed in 1916 by John Wolcott Adams and Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes.

The site is now occupied by the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House

when he was police commissioner of New York

Sagamore Hill National Historic Site

Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

President Theodore Roosevelt Burial Site

This particular volume was a gift from Alexander Hamilton's wife Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton to her sister Angelica

Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton's Grave

Home of Hamilton’s widow Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, and their two children, Col. Alexander Hamilton Jr. and his wife, and Eliza Hamilton Holly and her husband.

The Hamilton-Holly House

In 1820 the then Secretary of State John Quincy Adams commissioned William J. Stone, a printer, to create a copperplate engraving of the Declaration of Independence. This engraving was used to produce copies of the Declaration. The 1823 Stone engraving is now the most commonly replicated version of the Declaration.

John Hancock's Burial Site - Granary Burying Ground

Mount Vernon

George Washington Birthplace National Monument

George Washington Gravesite

Ground Zero

Bowling Green

A redraft of the 1660's Castello Plan of New Amsterdam, completed in 1916 by John Wolcott Adams and Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes.

Burial Site: North Cemetery, Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Castle Clinton National Monument 

Burial Site: St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church (Silver Spring, Maryland)

Scudder's American Museum, St. Paul's Chapel, and the view down BroadwayJames H. Dakin, artistBernard &amp; Dick, engraver

The "Exchange".

Showing the waterfront, Brooklyn Bridge, with Battery Park and Governors Island in the foreground. &nbsp;

Tweed Courthouse

Childhood Residence

Philadelphia Residence

London Residence

Hotel Valentinois

Paris Residence

Signing of the United States Declaration of Independence by John Trumbull

The scene depicted was actually&nbsp;

Federal Hall National Memorial

The grand Manhattan Bridge approach from Brooklyn, you can make out two statues inside the granite pylons flanking the roadway.

Original Location

Brooklyn Museum

working on sculpture for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. The model is Audrey Munson.

“Georgium Washington”&nbsp;

The Waldorf Astoria, New York&nbsp;

Montgomery suffered head wounds and is cradled by Mattias Odgen. &nbsp;

St. Paul's Churchyard

Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park

Three men at left, one saying, "Verily friend Darg since we have returned thee thy money, I claim the reward of $1000 - Brother Barney Corse was merely my agent, verily!" Another "Yea verily I was but thy instrument Brother Hopper as Brother Ruggles here knoweth!" Man at right, brandishing chair and holding bag marked $6908, rails at their impudence and tells them to "get out of the house." &nbsp;This 1838 lithograph commented on David Ruggles' arrest and imprisonment for encouraging a slave to escape. According to historian Eric Foner's 2014 article in Harper's " This unusual case arose when John P. Darg, a slave trader from New Orleans arrived in New York with a slave named Thomas Hughes, who had stolen $7000 from his former master, sought refuge at the home of the Quaker abolitionist Issac T. Hopper and Barney Corse, an abolitionist Isaac T. Hopper. Hopper and Barney Corse, an abolitionist and leading light of the New York Manumission Society, offered to repay the money if Darg would grant Hughes his freedom. Darg had them all, including Ruggles, who had nothing to do with these events, indicted for complicity in theft.'

Roosevelt went on safari and an extended tour of Africa and Europe immediately after leaving the presidency in 1909. Most of his trophies went to the Smithsonian Institution. &nbsp;

In 1908 it made the papers when former President Teddy Roosevelt outfitted himself with 'snake-proof sleeping bags and multiple weapons' before departing with the Smithsonian for his African Safari; over 11,000 animals were shot

No pictures were ever painted of Sarah Oort although she was acclaimed for her beauty. &nbsp;This scene was painted much later and includes some of Sarah's possessions: the silver and carpets she was reputed to own. &nbsp;

Captain Kidd's House

New York Home and Office

Hamilton Grange

Birthplace

Gravesite

&ldquo;I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection; that he would incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow-citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for brethren who have served in the field; and finally that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind, which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy nation.&rdquo;&mdash;Washington&rsquo;s &ldquo;Earnest Prayer&rdquo; was written by him at Newburgh, New York, at the close of the Revolutionary War, and appeared in the Circular Letter Addressed to the Governors of all the States on the Disbanding of the Army, June 14, 1783

Barnum's American Museum

Barnum's New Museum

Stephen Rochefontaine (February 20, 1755 &amp;ndash; January 30, 1814 ) was a French-born military engineer who served as such in the Continental Army, during the American Revolutionary War, and later as the very first Chief of Engineers of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. He was born &amp;Eacute;tienne Nicolas Marie B&amp;eacute;chet, Sieur de Rochefontaine in Marny, France.  

St. Paul's Chapel

 Throughout World War I, Sons of the Revolution sold Liberty Bonds in the Long Room to help raise money for the wartime effort, 1918  

The tombstone of Franklin Wharton, the third Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, at Trinity Church Cemetary in Wall Street

Franklin Wharton's Gravesite

The gravestone incorrectly documents, Silas Talbot, second captain of the US Frigate Constitution, as its first captain.

The gravestone incorrectly documents, Silas Talbot, second captain of the US Frigate Constitution, as its first captain.

In this Photo

IN THIS PHOTO