So before that other Albany High School, there was this Albany High School, the first one, at the corner of Eagle and Columbia streets. This postcard was sent in 1910 from Mabel to Miss Alice J. Paterson over on Avenue B in Schenectady.
Dear Alice
Thank you for letting me know about Aunt Libbie. Ada has been very kind to. She has written several times to keep me posted. It is too bad that things turned out just as they did, and you and Anna did not have the restful time you looked for, but Aunt Libbie is fortunate to be recovering at all. Come down when you can.
With love,
Mabel
Postcards of this era overwhelmingly report regret at not having written, and some sort of ailment or malady that has the writer down.
This fabulous pile of bricks, sadly long gone, stood where the Albany County Courthouse is today. What is now a little pathway with stairs down to Lodge street was apparently a full-fledged street at the time, the upper end of Steuben. The buildings off to the left are still standing.