Iconography of Manhattan Island: Illustrations from the Publication

Item Information

"Freedom of the City," and Gold Box to Contain Seal, Presented to Andrew Hamilton, dated Sept. 29, 1735

Dublin Core

Title

"Freedom of the City," and Gold Box to Contain Seal, Presented to Andrew Hamilton, dated Sept. 29, 1735

Subject

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) - History - 18th century.
Coat of arms--18th century
Hamilton, Andrew

Description

Image shows a document and two gold boxes

Source

Stokes, I. N. Phelps. The iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909. New York : Robert H. Dodd, 1915-1928. Electronic reproduction. v. 4. New York, N.Y. : Columbia University Libraries, 2008.

Date

1735

Language

English

Additional Item Metadata

Spatial Coverage

New York City

Provenance

Lena Cadwallader Evans

Citation

Plate 33 [no page number, following Chapter 2]

Temporal Coverage

1735

MODS

Key Date

1735

Type of Date

Exact

Repository Name

No repository

Language of Cataloging

English

Digital Origin

Reformatted digital

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

Vellum, gold

Citation

“"Freedom of the City," and Gold Box to Contain Seal, Presented to Andrew Hamilton, dated Sept. 29, 1735,” Columbia University Libraries Online Exhibitions, accessed May 18, 2024, https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/stokes/item/3791.

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