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English: The First View of New York 1626-8. Drawn by Kryn Fredericks, engineer of Fort Amsterdam, and for years hung in Peter Stuyvesant's Council Room in the Stadt House, it was finally sent to Holland, and rescued from oblivion by Adriaen Van der Donck who used it in the first book written on New Amsterdam and published by Joost Hartgers, Amsterdam, in 1651. Known as the "Hartgers View".
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Source Old New York yesterday and today (1922)
Author Kryn Fredericks
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