The New Metropolis 



Memorable Events of Three Centuries. 



1600 — From the Island of Mana-hal-la to Greater New 

 YorK at the Close of the Nineteenth Century— 1900 



Edited by E. IDELL ZEISLOFT. 



ILLUSTKATED WITH ONE THOUSAND ENGRAVINGS. 



1623 



New Netherlands 



1898 

 Greater New York 



1654 

 New Amsterdam 



THE TEXT. 



FORTY people thoroughly familiar with New York and its history com- 

 piled the descriptions which accompany the pictures, or which are 

 accompanied by the pictures, each being equally important. The work of 

 these forty people was again carefully revised and rewritten under the 

 direction of the Hditor. 



THE PICTURES. 



A corps of twenty artists, photographers, and engravers were con- 

 stantly occupied for several years with the illustrations. Every picture was 

 made the subject of study, and new and original methods were employed in 

 making them true and representative of their subjects, which cover a varied 

 and interesting field. A notable feature is the reproduction of a large 

 number of old prints, views of important localities in the great city as 

 they looked fifty and a hundred years ago. 



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