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

Library of Congress (LOC)

Museum

Library

Government Agency

Ground Zero

Carl Rakeman

Artist

US Department of Transportation

Childhood Residence

Philadelphia Residence

London Residence

Hotel Valentinois

Paris Residence

AIA New York Chapter

Beth Sholom Synagogue Preservation Foundation

Preservation Organization

Non-Profit Organization

Battery Park City Authority

Planning Firm

Located at the northwest corner of the WTC site 

AIA New York Center for Architecture

Cultural Organization

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

The Lutyens Trust

Edwin Lutyens

Architect

Urban Planner

cultureNOW

Smithsonian Institution

Sagamore Hill National Historic Site

Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

President Theodore Roosevelt Burial Site

Google Maps

Fan Pier

New York Public Library

Barnum's American Museum

Barnum's New Museum

New York Home and Office

Hamilton Grange

Birthplace

Gravesite

The British Library

Collection

George Schlegel

Lithographer

John Bachmann

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

Tweed Courthouse

National Park Service

Federal Hall National Memorial

National Archives and Records Administration

The first known photo of President Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg, hours before he delivered the famous Gettysburg Address.&nbsp;The Flagpole is at the future location of Soldier's National Monument

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace

Lincoln Home Site

William A. Petersen House

Lincoln Burial Site

New York City Municipal Archives

Currier & Ives

Media company

Mount Vernon

George Washington Birthplace National Monument

1st Presidential Mansion

2nd Presidential Mansion

George Washington Gravesite

Museum of the City of New York

Sydney Adamson 

Harper's Weekly

A 32-page supplement for Harper’s Weekly in the December 23, 1905, issue of the magazine included, along with a two-page spread of Adamson’s illustration, the texts of the speeches and full-page photographs of the guests at the event.

Franklin Wharton's Gravesite

Bishakh Som

Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton's Grave

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

Brooklyn Historical Society

Harry A. Chandler

Cartographer

Bowling Green

Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park

Castle Clinton National Monument 

The vault stone lies in the Trinity Church graveyard, but no one knows if anyone is actually interred in the vault.

Charlotte Temple's Grave

Fraunces Tavern Museum

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

WABC radio

From left to right: A. Stewart Walker as the Fuller Building, Leonard Schultze as the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Ely Jacques Kahn as the Squibb Building, William Van Alen as the Chrysler Building, Ralph Walker as 1 Wall Street, D.E. Ward as the Metropolitan Tower (= Metropolitan Life Tower?), and Joseph H. Freelander as the Museum of the City of New York. At the ball held by the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects on January 13, 1931 at the Hotel Astor in New York City. The ball's theme was Fête Moderne: A Fantasie in Flame and Silver.

National Academy of Design

New York Historical Society

A 6 year old Theodore Roosevelt and brother Elliot watch from the window of their Grandfather's mansion. The boys are in the second floor window on the left side of the street Teddy Roosevelt’s wife confirmed “Yes, I think that is my husband, and next to him his brother,” she exclaimed. “That horrible man! I was a little girl then and my governess took me to Grandfather Roosevelt’s house on Broadway so I could watch the funeral procession. But as I looked down from the window and saw all the black drapings I became frightened and started to cry. Theodore and Elliott were both there. They didn’t like my crying. They took me and locked me in a back room. I never did see Lincoln’s funeral.”&nbsp;

Tiffany & Co.

Private

Jean Leon Gerome Ferris

Painter

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

Columbia University

Educational

Place of Meditation, the chapel on the grounds of the Eisenhower Presidential Center

Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home

Hindustan Times

Publication

Trinity Church and Graveyard

Benjamin Moore's Gravesite

Howard Chandler Christy

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

John E. Herzog Collection

1778 Shares issued to John D. Rockefeller

Residence on Millionaires Row

Residence

Winter Home

Summer Home

Staats-Zeitung Building, The Sun Building, and the Tract Building

Amos Doolittle

Companies of British regulars marching into town, then the retulars drawn up in order. &nbsp;A detachment is destroying the provincial stores.

New York Transit Museum

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

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

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.'

WXY Studio

Architectural Firm

The park at the tip of the city was re-equipped with a series of public spaces and features such as a spiral walk-through water feature, benches, a kiosk, a fountain, and ornamental gardens, spread out across the park.

Seth Kaller

Historical Documents Dealer

Burial Site: North Cemetery, Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Bruce Munro

holding a butterfly labeled Nomination in his right hand and a copy of the New York Tribune in his left hand.

Department of Public Safety 

Mr. Jaie Laplante

The Jackie Robinson Museum

The Waldorf Astoria, New York&nbsp;

Henry Papprill

with a grand procession of Republican Wide-Awakes at New York in the evening

John Trumbull

Yale University

University

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

St. Paul's Churchyard

John Wolcott Adams

I.N. Phelps Stokes

New York Historical

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

Brooklyn Museum

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

Original Location

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

 Published in Harper's Weekly, Dec. 23, 1905  

Harvard University

“Georgium Washington”&nbsp;

when he was police commissioner of New York

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;

The Sun; The New York Journal Building; The Tribune; New York Times; The World building

Thomas Wolf

Photographer

&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

In this Photo

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