"A certain fish appeared... snow white, withouth fins, roud of body, and blew water up out of his head"
In 1647, residents of Fort Orange were treated to a rare spectacle.
Drawings from 1630 propose coats of arms for New Netherland and New Amsterdam. One was adopted; others rejected for omitting Amsterdam’s heraldic lions.
The flag of the Dutch West India Company served as the symbol of the dominant power in and around present-day New York,
E B. O'Callaghan was keeper of historical manuscripts for the State of New York in 1848. In that role he completed the original translation of the Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1638-1642.
Anthony Jansen van Salee, the Turk, arrived in New Amsterdam about 1633. For the next forty years, he stirred up trouble.
Peter Schaghen, the author of this document, was the representative of the States General in the Assembly of the Nineteen of the West India Company.
The Lily among Thorns is one of the early symbols of the Dutch Reformed Church. It originated in the mid-16th century as the rebellion of the Low Countries against Spain.
The Geuzen medal--shown here in one of its various forms--is a Dutch symbol reflecting a long history of resistance.
The credit for golf in its modern form is generally given to the Scots, but they certainly did not invent it from scratch.
It is difficult to imagine what the first glimpse of New Netherland was like for the seventeenth-century European...
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