SERIES: Pictorial History of the United States and Territories
SCENES: A Street in New Amsterdam; Peter Stuyvesant; Ethan Allen Commanding the Surrender of Ticonderoga; The Destruction of the Statue of George III, at Bowling Green; Hendrik Hudson's ship, the "Half-Moon."
SIZE: 5" x 3"
DATE: 1892
LITHOGRAPHER: Donaldson Brothers, N.Y.
CONDITION: Good to very good, I'd say. This card is only lightly soiled with slightly worn edges and rounded corners. There are diagonal creases across both lower corners. There's also about a 3/8" tear in the bottom edge, cutting through the "NEW" in the caption. (Please see scans.)
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REVERSE TEXT: NEW YORK.
BEFORE the advent of the Europeans, the territory from the Catskills to Lake Erie, including also part of northern Pennsylvania, belonged to the powerful Iroquois confederacy--the Mohawks, the Oneidas, the Onandagas, the Cayugas, and the Senecas. These were the Five Nations of the ancient explorers, which afterwards became the Six Nations, by the addition of the Tuscarora tribe from North Carolina. Although they numbered but 12,000 souls, their land became the Empire State of America.
The discoverer of the sea-coast of New York was Hendrik Hudson, an English captain, who sailed from the Texel in 1607. Trading in furs was begun about that time between the merchants of Amsterdam and the natives of Manhattan. An order of patrons came into being in 1620, and imposed on the Hudson valley a line of feudal chieftains--Van Rensselaer, Pauw, De Vries, Godyn and other Dutch gentlemen. Then came over as governor the gallant soldier Peter Stuyvesant, and inaugurated a wise, honest but despotic rule. On the 9th of July, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read aloud by an aide, in Washington's presence, to a brigade of the Continental army, drawn up in hollow square on the site of the City Hall. The same day the citizens pulled down the equestrian statue of George III, erected on Bowling Green, in 1770. At Newburgh, Washington rejected a proposal to make him king of America. After 1788 the vast wilderness of central and western New York was rapidly settled by New Englanders.
