The New Netherland Institute is grateful to the New York State Archives for allowing us to link to the images in their collection. We are also grateful to the Holland Society, which holds the copyright of the translations of New Netherland Documents at the New York State Archives, for permission to reproduce the translations here.
Robert J. Van de Graaff (1901–1967) was an American physicist and engineer best known for inventing the Van de Graaff generator, a high-voltage electrostatic device used in nuclear physics research and particle acceleration. He spent much of his career at MIT.
The Ulster County Archives Dutch Records Index is an index to the English translations of the Dutch court records of Wiltwyck 1661-1709. The index was first published...
Samuel A. Goudsmit (1902–1978) was a Dutch American physicist who, with George E. Uhlenbeck, discovered electron spin in 1925. He later worked in the United States, contributing to atomic physics and serving in scientific intelligence during World War II.
The Engel Sluiter Collection at UC Berkeley contains research and transcriptions (1930–2001) on Dutch, Spanish, and colonial maritime history across the Americas, Africa, the Caribbean, and Arctic regions.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar (born 1974) is a Dutch American television actor best known for his role as Zack Morris on Saved by the Bell. He later starred in series including NYPD Blue and Raising the Bar.
The Simon Hart Chronology represents summaries of notarial records relating to New Netherland located in the Municipal Archives of Amsterdam. In the 1650s the notaries of Amsterdam were directed, upon retirement or for other reasons, to deposit their protocols in the municipal archives for safekeeping. Simon Hart, during his tenure as chief archivist, spent his free time in the “Depot” of the archives, searching through the protocols
Samuel Gompers (1850–1924) was a labor leader and founding president of the American Federation of Labor (AFL). Serving for nearly four decades, he helped shape the American labor movement by advocating higher wages, safer working conditions, and organized collective bargaining.
The Annotated Bibliography of the Archaeology of the Delaware River Valley highlights archaeological research related to the Middle and Lower Delaware River Valley (at and below Trenton,...
Rudy Van Gelder (1924–2016) was a pioneering American recording engineer known for shaping the sound of modern jazz. Working with labels such as Blue Note, Prestige, and Impulse!, he engineered classic recordings by artists including Miles Davis and John Coltrane.
