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Castello Plan Images

Castello Plan by Johannes Vingboons after Jacques Cortelyou 1665-1670
Castello Plan Redrawn in 1913
Castello Plan from the Legend of New Amsterdam

“New Amsterdam in 1660” by Henry Stoessel. 1983.043.0001. 
Gift of Janet Schaefer. Photographs of the painting are courtesy of the South Street Seaport Museum , New York , New York

http://maps.yahoo.com/mapmixer?lid=77c9df17&pg=view –Redraft of the Castello Plan New Amsterdam in 1660

http://www.ekamper.net/newamsterdam Dr. Peter Ekamper, affilated with the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute in the Netherlands is currently working on a virtual map of the Castello Plan. Information from this workspace site has been utilized in some of his data. Visit the link for more info. To reach Dr. Ekamper email: ekamper@castelloplan.net .

The World of Peter Stuyvesant – Panorama
Published by the Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10029
In Co-operation with the New York State Council on the Arts
Photography made possible by a gift from Firth Haring Fabend

Images of New Amsterdam

http://www.lftantillo.com/ – Paintings by Len Tantillo

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_Amsterdam_1684_Visscher.jpg – Drawing by Adrian van der Donck,1648

New Amsterdam , Johannes Vingboons 

Related Maps and Images

Books of Interest

 

 

Books, Videos, and Paintings on New Amsterdam and New Netherlands currently in publication and available for purchase.  
Many of the authors listed below have been most generous in contributing their expertise and their permission to use scholarly articles or quotes from their books in the 3D model and this website.   We wish to thank them and encourage interested readers to consider purchasing their books to encourage further scholarship.

Books

A Dutch Family in the Middle Colonies, 1660-1800 
by Dr. Firth Haring Fabend 
http://www.amazon.com/Dutch-Family-Middle-Colonies-1660-1880/dp/0813526906 
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Land So Fair 
by Dr. Firth Haring Fabend
http://www.amazon.com/Land-Fair-Firth-Haring-Fabend/dp/0595473164/ref=sr_1_1
?ie=UTF8&qid=1249245236&sr=8-1 
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Imagine New Amsterdam (Paperback) by Courtney Alfred Haff Ph.D (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/Imagine-Amsterdam-Courtney-Alfred-Haff/dp/1439231095/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1249245310&sr=8-1 

The Colony of New Netherland: A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-century America (Paperback) 
by Jaap Jacobs Jaap Jacobs (Author)
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Explorers, Fortunes and Love Letters ( Mount Ida Press) (Hardcover) by New Netherland Institute (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/Explorers-Fortunes-Letters-Mount-Press/dp/0962536857/ref=pd_sim_b_6 

Food, Drink and Celebrations of the Hudson Valley Dutch (Paperback) 
by Peter G. Rose (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/Drink-Celebrations-Hudson-Valley-Dutch/dp/1596295953/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1249245503&sr=8-1 

Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City (Hardcover) 
by Eric W. Sanderson Eric W. Sanderson (Author)
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The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America (Paperback) 
by Russell Shorto Russell Shorto (Author)
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A Description of New Netherland (The Iroquoians and Their World) (Hardcover) 
by Adriaen van der Donck Adriaen van der Donck (Author)
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Kerry Buckley, the Director of the Historic Northampton Museum 
Kerry W. Buckley, ed., A Place Called Paradise: Culture & Community in Northampton, Massachusetts, 1654-2004 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004)

Kiliaen Van Rensselaer (1586-1643): Designing a New World by Janny Venemahttp://www.amazon.com/Kiliaen-Van-Rensselaer-1586-1643-Designing/dp/9087041969/ref=pd_sim_b_6

Exploring Dutch New York – A historic travel guide http://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Historic-Dutch-New-York/dp/0486486370

Cookies, Coleslaw, and Stoops: The Influence of Dutch on the North American Languages by Nicoline van der Sijs http://www.amazon.com/Cookies-Coleslaw-Stoops-Influence-Languages/dp/9089641246/ref=pd_sim_b_12

Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America by Eric Jay Dolin http://www.amazon.com/Fur-Fortune-Empire-History-America/dp/0393340023/ref=pd_sim_b_28

Paintings and Prints

Paintings by Len Tantillo, historical painter and designer of digital imagery for the NAHC 3D model: http://www.lftantillo.com/

Videos and other

Broadsides – a film about a significant naval battle in the 17 th century:  http://www.broadsidethefilm.com/index.php

 

Websites we admire for their structure, design and the way they present material:

http://www.1654society.org/

http://themannahattaproject.org/

http://www.gilderlehrman.org/institute/era_founding.php    The Gilder Lehrman Institute – This site may serve as a model for future aspects of the NAHC’s educational components.

Bard College, Graduate Center for Arts and Design

Broadsides – a film about naval battle in the 17th Century

Historic Northampton Museum and Education Center

http://legacy.www.nypl.org/research/chss/shoreline/introduction.html – NYPL – Mapping New York’s Shoreline, 1609-2009

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/09/manhattan/miller-text – National Geographic’s Online September 2009 Issue with Article “Before New York” and interactive “Beneath New York”

http://www.lostmuseum.cuny.edu/home.html – Virtual world exploration

http://www.ashp.cuny.edu/fivepoints/ – Database exploration

Websites we admire for the way they present information to children:

http://www.plimoth.org/education/olc/intro.html – Plimoth Plantation’s Thanksgiving History Search for Children

http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/dollhouse.htm – The National Gallery of Art’s Dollhouse Game

Department of Education
Teachers Guide Half Moon and Henry Hudson.pdf 
Teaching Guide OntheTrailofHenryHudsoninAmsterdam2.pdf

Websites we admire for their content as it relates to the NAHC mission:

http://www.nnp.org/vtour/index.html

http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/IroquoisVillage/

http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/grapharch.html

http://www.billsbrownstone.com/walks/index.asp   – Bill Greer, the author of a recent historical novel “The Mevrouw Who Saved Manhattan, A Novel of New Amsterdam” has written interesting descriptions of various residents, streets and sites of New Amsterdam including Stone Street, our prototype area.  He is treasurer of the New Netherland Institute

http://www.tug44.org/hudson.river/

http://www.hhr.highlands.com/default.html 

Half Moon 2009 Voyage of Discovery

http://www.halfmoon.mus.ny.us/2008fallvod/2008vodlog.htm

The Onrust Project

Peter Stuyvesant’s Ghost 

http://www.planning.org/tuesdaysatapa/2009/mar.htm – American Planning Association – This website from a Chicago Museum is an interesting combination of audio with a link to a presentation document. It is possible that this method could be used for professional development in the future.

http://dutchbarnsurvey.org -A Survey of Dutch New World Cultural Resources