The Railroad Fireman’s Dream
The Albany Journal printed an article in August, 1884 titled “The Railroad Fireman’s Dream”: “A remarkable accident occurred to Mr. Douglass M. Irish, a resident of No. 49 Colonie-street, about […]
The Albany Journal printed an article in August, 1884 titled “The Railroad Fireman’s Dream”: “A remarkable accident occurred to Mr. Douglass M. Irish, a resident of No. 49 Colonie-street, about […]
I originally posted this on My Non-Urban Life back in 2010. The folks at All Over Albany dug up an amazing test of the knowledge of eighth-graders in Albany in […]
The Troy Observer and Sunday Budget, the only Sunday paper printed in Troy (and thus the only paper in Troy with color comics) ran at least until 1953.
Andrew Aird dealt in sewing machines, clocks, spectacles, eye glasses, needles, oil, silk twist, thread and who knows what else from his store in the Mansion House Block in Troy. […]
(A version of this was previously published at All Over Albany.) So, what is a Menand? Well, the question really is, who was Menand? For the answer, you’d have to […]
There are people who, because of the predominance of government in Albany’s economic and civic life today, think that Albany was never much of a manufacturing town. Quite the opposite […]
Pruyn’s Albany Iron and Saw Works down on Pruyn Street was a substantial operation when this ad ran in 1858. The iron works manufactured just about everything that could be […]
Ladies! What to do when your beloved Barnum Blake bonnet becomes besmirched, bespotted or besoiled? Best betake yon bonnet to the Boston Bonnet Bleachery, where ladies’ straw, leghorn, chip and […]
Knowing what we now know about what doctors didn’t know in the mid-19th century, it’s easy to imagine the Albany Eye and Ear Infirmary of 1858 as a chamber of […]
1858. J.B. Armour, Brush Manufacturer, keeps constantly on hand a large assortment of brushes of all kinds and descriptions. When I was growing up, brushes were still a big thing. […]