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Depiction of New Amsterdam from the water, undated

The New Amsterdam colony, view from the water, I. N. Phelps Stokes, The Iconography of Manhattan Island, NYC Municipal Library.

A colorful historical illustration of early New Amsterdam from the waterfront showing the Dutch settlement. The drawing includes houses, a windmill and several sailing ships and boats in the harbor. There is an inscription at the top written in presumably old Dutch and below there is a caption that reads the "Prototype View."

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