Albany Brush Factory
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. […]
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. […]
Once upon a time, there was an elm tree in Albany’s Lafayette Park (just across from the Capitol). That tree’s grandparent (whatever that may mean) was a leafy witness to […]
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 […]
1870. Being a gentleman of taste and judgment, I want to go to there.
I’ll try for just a moment to focus only on the non-sexist elements of this Rinso detergent ad that ran in the Schenectady Gazette in 1921. Oh, wait. There […]
Beer and bologna. In 1862, Frederick P. Durr was running a saloon and bologna manufactory at 166 State Street in Schenectady.
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 […]
I’ll admit that I’m not sure whether “war prices” were a good thing when John A. Edwards took out this ad in 1862’s Schenectady directory. This was the golden age […]