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Picture The Castello Plan

  • Picture Notes
      The original en:Castello Plan. Full size photograph of manuscript map in the Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana of Florence, Italy. The Castello plan is the earliest known plan of New Amsterdam, and the only one dating from the Dutch period.
      Source: New York Public Library, Digital Gallery. Digital ID: 54682, Digital Record ID: 118555
      Date: 1660
      Author: Jacques Cortelyou, General Governor of Nieuw Amsterdam at that time.
  • Technical Data
      Dimensions: 760x569 pixels  (0.43 MegaPixels in total) Size: 356KB 300dpi 24 bpp, source file: CastelloPlanOriginal.jpg