1 ene 1625 año - The Dutch build Fort Amsterdam on the southern tip of Manhattan Island

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Joan Vinckeboons (1617-1670) was a Dutch cartographer and engraver born into a family of artists of Flemish origin. He was employed by the Dutch West India Company and for over 30 years produced maps for use by the Dutch merchant navy and military. He was a business partner of Joan Blaeu, one of the most important map and atlas publishers up to that time. Vinckeboons drew a series of 200 manuscript maps that were used in the production of atlases, including Blaeu's Atlas Maior. This 1639 map in quill pen and watercolor shows Manhattan Island as discovered about 25 years after the establishment of the Dutch fur-trading settlement known as New Amsterdam (now New York City). Also shown are Staten Island, Coney Island, and the North River (Hudson River). The numbered index in the lower right indicates the names of farms and buildings and their owners. The letters in the index indicate the locations of Fort Amsterdam, three mills, and the slave quarter of the settlement. The map was once part of a manuscript atlas that belonged to the Dutch company of Gerard van Keulen Hulst, which published sea atlases and navigation manuals for more than two centuries. With the demise of the company, the atlas was acquired and fragmented by Amsterdam book dealer Frederik Muller, who in 1887 sold 13 maps from the atlas attributed to Vinckeboons to collector and bibliographer Henry Harrisse. This map is part of the Henry Harrisse Collection of the Library of Congress.

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