Full-Page Illustrations

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The " Half Moon " on the Hudson,

1609    .         .         ,         .         Frontispiece

From the painting by L. W. Seavey.

The Stadt Huys        ....        8

Broad Street, 1642   ....      30

King's College, about 1773      .        .      42

The Debtors' Prison         ...      48

William Smith        ^

Peter Stuyvesant   |

Philip Freneau        )-         .        .        .60

Thomas Paine

Joel Barlow

The First Tammany Wigwam, Cor¬
ner 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