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Peter K. Dederick’s Albany Agricultural and Machine Works was one of the first major agricultural implement factories. Dederick held several patents, beginning in 1843, and his works made the first commercial hay press. The works in Tivoli Hollow were massive, and a significant chunk of the old factory remains. The train tracks seen in this view to the south of the factory are still there today. A Google search for P.K. Dederick will turn up a significant amount of ephemera and memorabilia.
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I am a volunteer with the Grinnell Historical Museum in Grinnell, Iowa. I am creating a Hay History Timeline of inventions in hay equipment and am trying to find pictures I could use of the early stationary hay balers. Do you have any early pictures of these balers I could use for the display? My understanding is that P.K. Daedric of Albany, NY made an early machine around 1850. Do you have anything I could use?
Richard, I’m afraid I don’t have anything that isn’t shown here. My suggestion would be to reach out to the Albany Institute of History and Art. or the NYS Archives. I’ll see if I can find anything else but it would likely be either through Archive.org or the Library of Congress.
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