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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. | |
