2-716-678 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Portrait of Peter Stuyvesant, Governor of New York Colony, showing armour and a black skull-cap', 1647, (1937). Peter Stuyvesant ((1592-1672) served as the last Dutch director-general of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664, after which it was renamed New York. From "History of American Costume - Book One 1607-1800", by Elisabeth McClellan. [Tudor Publishing Company, New York, 1937]