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The importance of the fur trade to the very existence of Albany cannot be overstated. Although Killian van Rensselaer tried to promote agriculture and tobacco-planting, and the Dutch East India […]
The importance of the fur trade to the very existence of Albany cannot be overstated. Although Killian van Rensselaer tried to promote agriculture and tobacco-planting, and the Dutch East India […]
You didn’t think one of the finest new buildings in Albany, the D&H headquarters, would use anything other than Albany-made venetian blinds, did you? Of course not. Now send for […]
From 1940, an ad for John Ferris Jr., manufacturer of brushes since 1833. He was one of what seems to have been simply hundreds of businesses on Broadway at the […]
Everyone knows (and if you don’t, you should) that the massive, beautiful SUNY Administration building sprawled across the plaza along Broadway at State Street was, when built in 1915 by […]
1891, and what was probably one of Albany’s earliest advertising agencies was advertising “Brains To Let, For Advertising Purposes.” Delicious brains.
You’ll be shocked to learn that in the 1890s, there was scandal about the legislature. The water supply, however, was above reproach, thanks to the efforts of the Albany Steam […]
Nothing Albany-related about this, but I couldn’t resist posting this bold advice from “The Horseless Age” magazine.
Baking powder wasn’t Albany’s only condensed and dry manufacture of 1891. We were also the home of Day’s Diamond Paste, the wallpaper paste that prevented moths and vermin in walls. […]
As mentioned in the previous post, there was a bit of a fire at the Brandow Publishing house in 1891, just as “The New Albany” was set to roll off […]
Just before the publication of the first number of “The New Albany” in 1891, Brandow Printing Company’s plant was consumed by fire. Type was made of lead then, and lead […]