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The “Half Moon” on the Hudson, 1609 From the painting by L.W. Seavey. Frontispiece
The Stadt Huys 8
Broad Street, 1642 30
King’s College, about 1773 42
The Debtors’ Prison 48
William Smith Peter Stuyvesant Philip Freneau Thomas Paine Joel Barlow 60
The First Tammany Wigwam, Corner Nassau and Spruce Streets 70
Map of Streets in the City of New York in 1827 76
James Kirke Paulding Philip Hone Washington Irving Joseph Rodman Drake Fitz-Greene Halleck J. Fenimore Cooper 100
The Park Theatre, Park Row, 1831 136
Richard Henry Stoddard John James Audubon William Cullen Bryant Bayard Taylor Edgar Allan Poe Robert Fulton 150
Poe’s Cottage at Fordham From a drawing by C.W. Mielatz, by permission. Copyright, 1899, by The Society of Iconophiles. 158
The Battery in 1830 From a drawing by C. Burton. 164
The Apollo Rooms in 1830 170
View of Old Buildings in William Street, Looking Towards Maiden Lane, 1800 182
W.D. Howells J.G. Holland Richard Grant White Brander Matthews William Winter 200
From an engraving of the picture by J.H. Marble; courtesy of W.E. Benjamin.