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File:CastelloPlanOriginal.jpg

Summary

Description 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. The text at the top of the image states: "Image of the city Amsterdam in New Netherland".
Date 1660
Source New York Public Library, Digital Gallery. Digital ID: 54682, Digital Record ID: 118555.
Author Jacques Cortelyou, General Governor of Nieuw Amsterdam at that time.

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Orientation Normal
Horizontal resolution 300 dpi
Vertical resolution 300 dpi
Software used Adobe Photoshop 7.0
File change date and time 16:33, 26 February 2009
Colour space sRGB
Image height 2,400 px
Image width 1,598 px
Date and time of digitizing 10:48, 13 March 2008
Date metadata was last modified 05:31, 19 February 2009

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