DescriptionThe Port of New York: The First 200 Years. Reprinted from Via Port of New York. Published by The Port of New York Authority, World Trade Department, Port Promotion Division, New York, [Dec. 1970.] Booklet, 8-1/2" x 11", 40 pp. plus covers, illustrated. Via Port of New York was a monthly publication. The publication here has nineteen two-page historical essays originally published in the series "How World Trade Made the Port." No authors stated or original publication date. List of articles: 1. The Iroquois; When Beaver was King 2. Adriaen van der Donck ... Lawyer; Colony of a Company 3. The Burghers ...; From Great to Small Burghers: Seventeenth Century Commerce at Port Passes in Part from Aristocracy 4. Soldier and Settler; Robert Treat's Extraordinary Qualities of Leadership Spawned Birth of New Jersey's Great Port City 5. Governor Andros; A Harbour Before Ye City; Early English Governor Develops Port Facilities and Trade, Forseeing Future Greatness of New York Harbor 6. The Seafarers; Flour and Freebooters; New York's Export Flour Monopoly and Privateers Spurred Growth from Outpost ot Major Port 7. William Bradford and Contempories - Circa 1700; A Printer Comes to Port; Wharves, Pilotage, Publishing Commerce in Thriving Old New York 8. The Mercantilers ...; Freeman and Merchant Prince; In an Era of Expanding Commericalism at the Port of New York, Foreign Trade Brought Private Fortunes and Civic Growth 9. Philip Livingston; There Were Giants... ; Boldness, Industry and Public Spirit Were Hallmarks of Those Who Built Old New York 10. The Waltons ...; A Mercantile Dynasty 11. Isaac Roosevelt; Portrait of a Patriot 12. Merchants of the World; Memorable Mercantilers; Old New York Merchants Excelled as Importers, Guardians of the Poor and Sick 13.Through Troubled Times; New York Merchants Show Divided Loyalties, But Trade Survives During Revolutionary War 14. Henry Eckford; Master Shipbuilder of the Port; Nineteenth Century Naval Architect Revolutionizes Marine Construction 15. Robert Fulton; Workshop: The World; Inventor of Steamboat Envisioned Universal Peace Through Free Trade Among All Nations 16. Alexander Hamilton; Architect of Finance 17. John Jacob Astor; Trader from Waldorf; Fur Company Founder Opens Trade to West, Expands Commerce at Port of New York 18. Governeur Morris; A Vision Fulfilled; Statesman Devotes Life-long Energies and Talent to Promotion of Canal System Traversing New York State 19. De Witt Clinton; Builder of the Big Ditch; Completion of Erie Canal Establishes New York as Nation's Leading Port. 4to booklet