Please to Save Your Rags
The frequently mentioned Joel Munsell, in his “A Chronology of Paper and Paper-Making,” tells us this story of the rag trade in Troy in 1801. Paper made from tree pulp […]
The frequently mentioned Joel Munsell, in his “A Chronology of Paper and Paper-Making,” tells us this story of the rag trade in Troy in 1801. Paper made from tree pulp […]
From 1858, an ad for Joel Munsell’s steam printing house. I’ve mentioned Munsell a few hundred times before, and even visited his grave. His Annals of Albany, mentioned here, is […]
The Library of Congress’s American Memory Collection has a number of photos (unfortunately not high-resolution) of Schenectady’s Grout Park School. When it opened, it was a marvel of modernism, designed […]
The Library of Congress’s American Memory collection has a number of photos of Schenectady schools, including a series taken by photographer Philip Bonn in June, 1943, at the Elmer Avenue […]
This photo is from sometime in the early to mid-1940s. Would you say they look like second or third grade? In the middle row, third from right, in the overalls, […]
Because I don’t have any good photographs of the outside of my elementary school, I’ll start with this charming photograph of my kindergarten class inside the gym. This was the […]
Hoxsie’s going old school this week. Real old school. Scotia, New York was a booming village in 1905 when it built its first high school, on First Street just two […]
If for any reason we ever felt the stirring need to rename Schenectady, the name of Steinmetz wouldn’t be a bad choice. There was hardly anyone who figured more in […]
John Wesley Hyatt was born in Starkey, New York, on the west side of Seneca Lake on November 28, 1837. When he was sixteen, he went to Illinois and became […]
English: Black-and-white bust portrait of Thurlow Weed, Republican political boss (Photo credit: Wikipedia) He should be remembered just for his name: Thurlow Weed. He should be remembered just for the […]