Education in Albany, 90 years ago
In 1923, the Albany Chamber of Commerce put out a booklet promoting “Education in Albany: An Opportunity and a Business.” “What educational opportunity will be possible for my children?” the […]
In 1923, the Albany Chamber of Commerce put out a booklet promoting “Education in Albany: An Opportunity and a Business.” “What educational opportunity will be possible for my children?” the […]
At some point, J.B. Lyon’s massive printing operation (“the largest complete printing plant between New York and Chicago”) left its downtown location at Beaver and Daniel (among others) for the […]
Everyone’s been all a-twitter because the Times Union got a new press. (In fairness, it is likely to be the last offset web press ever installed in the area. Ever.) […]
The Albany Institute of History and Art collection includes this fabulous 1909 letter, on the letterhead of Cairo’s Eden Palace Hotel (with electric light and a lift!). The letter is […]
Hey, remember that time when Albany was going to set standard time for the entire country? And the Dudley Observatory was going to figure out what time it really was? […]
Couldn’t resist sharing one more ad extolling the virtues of Albany Grease. That it had long since been manufactured in New York City by the time this ad appeared in […]
Anyone of a certain age (which is to say, my age or more) probably has fond memories of Freihofer’s, when it was a very important local brand, perhaps the local […]
It seems incredible that there was once a very large chain of grocery stores named for one of the first radio stations in the country, and even more incredible that […]
We know that Albany was in on some great technological breakthroughs – Joseph Henry’s discovery of electrical induction and creation of the first telegraph signal, John Wesley Hyatt’s invention of […]
The wide-ranging autobiography of William Henry Johnson is filled with reminders of how much and how little has changed since its publication in 1900. In the “Finale,” John T. Chapman, […]