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the maps they drew
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A Tour of New Netherland

Welcome to New Netherland. If you are a first-time visitor, you are about to enter a lost world. Then again, you may soon discover that you've been here before. In fact, you may live here. This exhibit takes the reader through this lost world from the Hou…
simier.   For more on this and similar maps see The Maps of Bert Twaalfhoven on this sit
https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/digital-exhibitions/a-tour-of-new-netherland

The Maps of Bert Twaalfhoven

This exhibit displays and describes three centuries of maps collected by a Dutchman who immigrated to the United States during World War II. Launching a business career after winning a scholarship to Fordham University, Mr. Twaalfhoven donated the maps to…
17th and 18th century maps of his new home. The grateful alum of Fordh…am donated 22 maps of New Netherland…he New Netherland Institute to display these maps in this digital exhibition. The collection
https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/digital-exhibitions/maps-of-the-bert-twaalfhoven-collection-at-fordham

The Maps


https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/digital-exhibitions/maps-of-the-bert-twaalfhoven-collection-at-fordham/the-maps

6) A Map of New England and New York, 1676

John Speed An English version of the maps of Jansson and Visscher. … This is one of the earliest maps to illustrate the dramatic shift from Dutch …lso named. It is also one of the few English maps of the Northeast printed before 1700. A Ma
https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/digital-exhibitions/maps-of-the-bert-twaalfhoven-collection-at-fordham/the-maps/a-map-of-new-england-and-new-york-sold-by-tho-basset-in-fleetstreet-and-richard-chiswell-in-st-paul-s-church-1676

7) New England Situated in North America, 1724

Baptiste Homann One of the few collectible maps of the Northeast of the early 18th century.
https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/digital-exhibitions/maps-of-the-bert-twaalfhoven-collection-at-fordham/the-maps/new-england-situated-in-north-america-1724

10) New Netherland and New England, mid-1650s

DUTCHMAPS
https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/digital-exhibitions/maps-of-the-bert-twaalfhoven-collection-at-fordham/the-maps/new-netherland-and-new-england-mid-1650s

11) New Amsterdam, 1671

DUTCHMAPS
https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/digital-exhibitions/maps-of-the-bert-twaalfhoven-collection-at-fordham/the-maps/new-amsterdam-1671

12) Chart of the Sea Coast of New Netherlands Otherwise Named New York, 1685

fine example of one of the earliest printed maps of Long Island…clusion of many names not occurring on other maps as well as for its large scale inset map of
https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/digital-exhibitions/maps-of-the-bert-twaalfhoven-collection-at-fordham/the-maps/chart-of-the-sea-coast-of-new-netherlands-otherwise-named-new-york-1685

13) New Netherland, Which is Now Called New York, and New England and Part of Virginia, 1671

DUTCHMAPS
https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/digital-exhibitions/maps-of-the-bert-twaalfhoven-collection-at-fordham/the-maps/new-netherland-which-is-now-called-new-york-and-new-england-and-part-of-virginia-1671

About the New Netherland Institute

For over three decades, NNI has helped cast light on America's Dutch roots. In 2010, it partnered with the New York State Office of Cultural Education to establish the New Netherland Research Center, with matching funds from the State of the Netherlands. NNI is registered as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. More

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