So where did J.B. Lyon move to?
At some point, J.B. Lyon’s massive printing operation (“the largest complete printing plant between New York and Chicago”) left its downtown location at Beaver and Daniel (among others) for the […]
At some point, J.B. Lyon’s massive printing operation (“the largest complete printing plant between New York and Chicago”) left its downtown location at Beaver and Daniel (among others) for the […]
Everyone’s been all a-twitter because the Times Union got a new press. (In fairness, it is likely to be the last offset web press ever installed in the area. Ever.) […]
The Albany Institute of History and Art collection includes this fabulous 1909 letter, on the letterhead of Cairo’s Eden Palace Hotel (with electric light and a lift!). The letter is […]
Hey, remember that time when Albany was going to set standard time for the entire country? And the Dudley Observatory was going to figure out what time it really was? […]
Couldn’t resist sharing one more ad extolling the virtues of Albany Grease. That it had long since been manufactured in New York City by the time this ad appeared in […]
Anyone of a certain age (which is to say, my age or more) probably has fond memories of Freihofer’s, when it was a very important local brand, perhaps the local […]
It seems incredible that there was once a very large chain of grocery stores named for one of the first radio stations in the country, and even more incredible that […]
We know that Albany was in on some great technological breakthroughs – Joseph Henry’s discovery of electrical induction and creation of the first telegraph signal, John Wesley Hyatt’s invention of […]
The wide-ranging autobiography of William Henry Johnson is filled with reminders of how much and how little has changed since its publication in 1900. In the “Finale,” John T. Chapman, […]
If someone from another culture were to come here today, on this President’s Day holiday, and try to guess what it is we’re celebrating, there’s no doubt he or she […]