Adriaen Block and the ship Onrust

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

This episode is from the WNYC archives. It may contain language which is no longer politically or socially appropriate.

Dramatization of the role of Adriaen Block in the early history of Manhattan, and particularly of his ship the Onrust.


Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection


WNYC archives id: 74154
Municipal archives id: LT3137

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