John Wakefield Francis, M.D. (1789-1861), a noted doctor, teacher, and author, was librarian of The New-York Historical Society from 1812 to 1818 and its corresponding secretary in 1817 and 1818.

This nineteenth-century view looks south from the Kip's Bay area, where British forces landed on Manhattan Island on September 15, 1776. Adam and Noah Brown started a shipbuilding business in 1804 by taking a subcontract from Thomas Vail, who had a yard at the foot of Montgmery Street. The Browns later established their own yard, depicted in this view, on the East River shore north of Corlaers Hook between Stanton and East Third streets.

These buildings are nos. 108 to 124 on Broadway. This watercolor was copied from Jones and Newman's Pictorial Directory of New York, 1848. (There is a copy in the Print Room, NYHS.)

This house was erected prior to 1688 on Captain Christopher Billopp's manor of Bentley, on the south shore of Staten Island at the foot of Hylan Boulevard at Tottenville. On September 11, 1776, it was the scene of a futile peace conference between a committee of the Continental Congress, attended by Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Edward Rutledge, and Richard, Lord Viscount Howe, the British representative, to settle differences between Great Britain and the American colonies.

This view was engraved and published by F. and George Warren Smith, 1855, with the title New York (29 x 50 3/4), and was one of the Smith Brothers' views of American cities.

A view of the drying shed of the powder plant erected on the brandywine River in 1802 by the de Neuvilles' friend Eleuthere Irenee du Pont de Nemours (1771-1834). Irenee's elder brother, Victor du Pont de Nemours (1767-1827), lived at Angelica, New York, from 1806 to 1809, where the de Neuvilles visited with him in 1807 and purchased a farm.

This shows St. John's Episcopal Church, located on Lafayette Square at the northwest corner of 16th and H streets. The church was erected in 1816 from designs by Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764-1820), and is known as the "Church of the Presidents." The Society also owns a watercolor of the church copied by an unidentified artist from a drawing by Latrobe in 1816.

Gertrude Schuyler was the eldest child of Johannes Schuyler, Jr. and Cornelia (Van Cortlandt) Schuyler of Albany. She married Dr. John Cochran (1730-1807), a chief physician and surgeon in the Continental Army, on December 4, 1760. This portrait was executed in Amsterdam, New York, shortly after the death of Dr. Cochran, while the artist and her husband were touring through New York State.

This is the earliest known view of the building known as "Fort Crailo" on the east bank of the Hudson River at Rensselaer opposite Albany. It was here that the verses of "Yankee Doodle" were composed in 1758 during the French and Indian War. At the time of the baroness's visit it was the home of Major John Jeremias Van Rensselaer. Still standing on Riverside Avenue, it is now a historic site owned by the state of New York and open as a museum.

The de Neuvilles visited Niagara Falls on September 1, 1807, and it must have been on this occasion that Madame de Neuville sketched Peter of Buffalo at nearby Tonawanda, N.Y. Dr. William N. Fenton suggests that this may be Tall Peter of Buffalo Creek, who joined the Christian church in 1823 and was one of the most active chiefs in promoting the 1838 sale of Indian lands in northwestern New York. Ethel Brant Montour suggests that it is Peter Blacksnake, the Seneca chief.