Yellow Fever and Thanksgiving
Portrait of John Jay (Photo credit: Wikipedia) New York State’s first Thanksgiving proclamation came about, not in remembrance of the Pilgrims, but in relief over the passing of an epidemic […]
Portrait of John Jay (Photo credit: Wikipedia) New York State’s first Thanksgiving proclamation came about, not in remembrance of the Pilgrims, but in relief over the passing of an epidemic […]
One of the defining parts of the Albany skyline for decades was dedicated on this day, Nov. 21, in 1852. Patrick C. Keely was the architect for the Cathedral of […]
The Municipal Telegraph and Stock Company, 1898. Telegraphs and stocks might make some sense together . . . after all, the early stock tickers were essentially telegraph devices. That this […]
From 1898, an assertion that was certainly not true in a town that had several daily newspapers. At that time, Beaver Street was a hotbed of publishing activity.
Beaver lunch (Photo credit: carljohnson) Again, Joel Munsell writing in 1876, this time of the creek known as the Rutten kill (as we’d spell kill today), which ran freely through […]
It’s a shame that one of Albany’s oldest streets, Green Street, is barely known today. Other than the LaSerre restaurant, it is primarily a street of parking lots. It wasn’t […]
Joel Munsell in his “Men And Things in Albany Two Centuries Ago” (1876) described the now-long-gone historic house at the corner of South Pearl and State: “What is now South […]
One last map because it’s too great to resist. From Joel Munsell’s “Men and Things in Albany Two Centuries Ago,” this magnificent diagram depicts Albany in 1695. The original was […]
Visitors to modern Troy, New York are frequently perplexed by the one-way streets, and by the fact that First through Fourth are streets, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth are avenues, and […]
Another view of Albany’s Lumber District, once one of the busiest in the world, to show what was there in 1895 and what is there today. At the time, the […]