Hoxsie bottle!
Do not want (at least not at $57), but I was pleasantly surprised when a Google alert brought me the news that there is a Hoxsie bottle out there for […]
Do not want (at least not at $57), but I was pleasantly surprised when a Google alert brought me the news that there is a Hoxsie bottle out there for […]
It’s 1858, and you need bent fellies. You need Winne & Northrop. How did they bend their fellies? Well, it’s just possible they used Mann’s Felly-Building Machine. (A felly […]
In 1905, Capital City News distributed newspapers, including the late New York evening papers and imported German publications. They also dabbled in school supplies, cigars and tobacco. That’s a combination […]
If you believe what Professor Henry A. DeMunn had to say in 1862 (and I demand to know the provenance of his doctoral degree), that he had been working for […]
Considering that Albany has been a one-newspaper city for more than 20 years (with some fringe elements clinging stubbornly to the superior quality of the Daily Gazette or the Sound-Off […]
I have some doubts as to whether this 1857 view of John Taylor & Sons’ brewery operations, where they made Albany Imperial XX Ales, was from Albany or perhaps their […]
A little less nifty looking than the Ransom & Rathbone Stove-Works, the Eagle Air Furnace also made stoves and other iron castings somewhere on Beaver Street. Like its competitor, The […]
Albany and Troy were once the stove capitals of the United States. The growth of iron works and the ability to transport goods by river, canal and, later, rail positioned […]
In the 1840s, Albany was the ninth most populous city in the nation. Its position at the terminus of the Erie Canal made it a vital connection between the growing […]
Conveniently located opposite the bath house, Joseph Gall (J.G. to his continental friends) was another merchant of the “respectfully informing” school. Now I would expect that an optician of the […]