A view looking east from Fort Clinton, which appears at the left, across the course of Benson's Creek and the marshes extending from the McGown's Pass area to the East River. In this and other watercolors of the Holland series the name McGown is incorrectly spelled "McGowan" on titles applied to the illustration. Edward Hagman Hall's McGown's Pass and Vicinity has an excellent map delineating the fortifications in northern Central Park with relation to modern streets and pathways.

This view depicts an encounter off the Brazilian coast between the United States frigate Consitution, 44 guns, Commodore William Bainbridge, and the British frigate Java, 38 guns, Captain Henry Lambert, on December 29, 1812. In an action of more than two hours, the Java was completely dismated and was compelled to surrender. The artist's sketch depicts the termination of the battle after the Java had lost her foremast, main topmast, and mizzenmast.

An old drugstore occupied the street level.

This is a profile full-length figure study of a seated woman sewing, with a dressing table at the rear. The sketch is inscribed in ink at the lower left: "Md S." At the upper left is pasted a small cut-out profile sketch of Washington, inscribed in ink at the bottom: Gal W. At the bottom is a separate profile sketch of a seated woman, inscribed in ink at the bottom: "Mde S..."

Passiac Bridge spanned the Passaic River at Totowa, now within the city of Paterson.

These buildings are nos. 59 to 63 on Broadway, on the block between Rector Street and Oyster Pastie Lane (now Exchange Alley). Judson's Hotel appears in the center. This watercolor is copied from Jones and Newman's Pictorial Directory of New York (1848).

The building at the left is Tammany Hall on the corner of Frankfort and Nassau Street. It was the first permanent "Wigwam" from 1812 to 1867, and was later occupied by the New York Sun. This block front is now occupied by Pace University.

This is a view looking from Whitehall Street toward Broadway and Battery Place ca. 1848. At the left are the residences formerly called the Bowling Green Block and later known as "Steamship Row," on the site of the United States Custom House. The building in the center distance, at the corner of Battery Place, is the former Kennedy mansion at 1 Broadway, which served as a military headquarters during the American Revolution. It was later enlarged and became the Washington Hotel.

In 1859 Dr. Alexander Anderson (1775-1870) (q.v.), first known engraver on wood in the United States, moved from Broome Street to this house at 157 Orchard Street, between Rivington and Stanton streets, where he lived until 1866. A watercolor by E.L. Lewis of one of his two Broome Street homes is also in the Society's collection.

This is a later version of a large undated watercolor of the same scene owned in 1971 by the Old Print Shop, New York City. The hotel known as the Palisades Mountain House which is seen on the summit of the cliff in the version owned by the Society is not depicted in the earlier version. The view is of the Palisades at Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. In the past it has been incorrectly identifed as taken from Alpine, New Jersey, five miles farther north.