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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 (not Amsterdam, as you can see on the picture), 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".
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New York Public Library, Digital Gallery. Digital ID: 54682, Digital Record ID: 118555.
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Jacques Cortelyou, General Governor of Nieuw Amsterdam at that time.
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