Thorburn’s Seed & Fruit Store
By 1869 when this ad ran, Thorburn’s Albany Seed and Fruit Store had been around for 38 years already, delivering fruit with care to any part of the city. They […]
By 1869 when this ad ran, Thorburn’s Albany Seed and Fruit Store had been around for 38 years already, delivering fruit with care to any part of the city. They […]
We’ve written before of the importance of Joel Munsell as one of Albany’s premiere printers, publishers, and historians. So today let’s just admire the beauty of his steam press. This […]
In addition to creating the entire field of court stenography and trying to invent a noiseless typewriter, Philander Deming was a writer of some renown. He wrote a number of […]
No one could say he wasn’t an innovator. In the 1870s, Albany’s Philander Deming, father of court stenography, saw the possibilities arising from the newfangled writing machines known as type-writers. […]
Albany’s Philander Deming told the story of his innovation of court stenography in the third person, referring to himself (in a style of modesty then current, perhaps) as Mr. Gray: […]
It’s going to take a few days to tell all that we need to tell of Albany’s Philander Deming. He was an author whose sketches of life in the Adirondacks […]
In 1868, Albany put in place a system of fire alarm telegraphs, by which a signal could be sent to a central location to alert the fire department. Prior to […]
It’s back-to-school week, so we’re all thinking of school supplies, which means we’re all thinking of Dixon Ticonderoga pencils, whose graphite originally came from the historic town on Lake Champlain. […]
In 1869, steam power was the height of modernity. And in order to power something with steam, you needed a steam engine or boiler. James O. Haight of Albany was […]
Those wishing to wash the gray away in 1869 might have turned to Blasie’s Superior Instantaneous Hair Dye, available in black or brown and positively the best in use. It […]