Benjamin Marsh’s Patented Spoon
Last week we wrote that we didn’t know anything about Benjamin Marsh, whose jewelry store passed into the hands of Henry Rowlands in 1869. But that’s not entirely true: we […]
Last week we wrote that we didn’t know anything about Benjamin Marsh, whose jewelry store passed into the hands of Henry Rowlands in 1869. But that’s not entirely true: we […]
In 1869, future spoon-patenter Benjamin Marsh sold his store at 34 State Street, at the corner of Broadway, to Henry Rowlands. I don’t know anything about either of them, but […]
We’ve seen a simpler ad from J.W. Osborn, from 1858, before. When this ran in 1863, he was selling not only slate roofing but also kerosene oil, benzole, etc. He […]
Even in the days of the general store, it’s hard to imagine a store more general than that of W.J. and R.H. Scott, manufacturers and dealers in Military, Fire Department,Base […]
It used to be that boxes were made locally. Every city of any size had a few box makers. The paper and linerboard and corrugated cardboard that made up boxes […]
By 1869 when this ad ran, Thorburn’s Albany Seed and Fruit Store had been around for 38 years already, delivering fruit with care to any part of the city. They […]
We’ve written before of the importance of Joel Munsell as one of Albany’s premiere printers, publishers, and historians. So today let’s just admire the beauty of his steam press. This […]
In addition to creating the entire field of court stenography and trying to invent a noiseless typewriter, Philander Deming was a writer of some renown. He wrote a number of […]
No one could say he wasn’t an innovator. In the 1870s, Albany’s Philander Deming, father of court stenography, saw the possibilities arising from the newfangled writing machines known as type-writers. […]
Albany’s Philander Deming told the story of his innovation of court stenography in the third person, referring to himself (in a style of modesty then current, perhaps) as Mr. Gray: […]