B. Payn’s Son’s Tobacco Company
I’m not at all sure that this 1886 ad has its apostrophes in all the right places, but I suppose it’s possible that B. Payn had one son, and that […]
I’m not at all sure that this 1886 ad has its apostrophes in all the right places, but I suppose it’s possible that B. Payn had one son, and that […]
Haven’t previously seen mention of St. Marc Ladies and Gents’ Restaurant (!), which was running around the time of the Albany bicentennial in 1886, at 50 N. Pearl St. Special […]
A very cool ad from J.F. Seman, optician, who in 1886 was at the corner of State and North Pearl. He offered eye glasses and spectacles in gold, silver and […]
Back in the early part of the century (the real century, you noobs), a group of engineers formed the Albany Society of Civil Engineers. In addition to going to meetings […]
Yesterday we had an artist’s rendering from 1886 of the then-new Albany Greenbush bridge. It looks like it was built pretty much according to this plan, which was laid out […]
It wasn’t until after years of bickering that a bridge across the Hudson River between Albany and Greenbush (now Rensselaer) was established. The Albany and Greenbush Bridge Company was chartered […]
In writing about Albany’s prospects in 1815, a writer for the “American Magazine” (credited only as “A.B.”) saw fit to try to enumerate some of the improvements the city had […]
In 1815 John Cook and Charles Holt established the American Magazine in Albany, under the editorship of Horatio Gates Spafford. In the second number, Spafford wondered, “What will be the […]
I’ve posted this before. I will post it again. The manner in which the inhabitants of the town [of Albany] celebrate New Year’s Day: I had travelled far enough in […]
Those of you for whom New Year’s Eve is an occasion for public drunken revelry (which in Albany appears to set it apart from almost no other holiday) may look […]