Blum’s Marble Works
Yeah, it does. Marble for the living and the dead, right next door to the Columbian Hotel, which means Union Street at the corner of Romeyn (which no longer […]
Yeah, it does. Marble for the living and the dead, right next door to the Columbian Hotel, which means Union Street at the corner of Romeyn (which no longer […]
All of these fine establishments, offering the best in brandies, dentistry, and photography, were located in busy downtown Albany, though this ad is from the Schenectady directory from 1862. […]
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. […]