1785

New Amsterdam to now: Images of New York in the Colonial days

Here are images showing New York City’s growth from a frontier settlement known as New Amsterdam to the metropolis of the western world –through the Colonial times, and in the early days of US independence.

Founding Father Benjamin Franklin dies at age 85 (1790)

Benjamin Franklin dies at 85: Upon the death of a prominent American, we are favored with the following short account of Franklin’s last illness, by his friend and physician, Dr Jones.