Gnadendorff Apothecary
“Apothecary” is one of those words I wish would come back. This is from the 1862 Schenectady city directory. More on Dr. Gnadendorff here.
“Apothecary” is one of those words I wish would come back. This is from the 1862 Schenectady city directory. More on Dr. Gnadendorff here.
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 Van Vranken family had all sorts of business ventures in the not-yet-Electric City. In 1862, C. & H. Van Vranken were in the carriage and sleigh building business. Rotterdam […]
Andrew McMullen was in the coal business in Schenectady in 1862. I don’t know how one chose household coal, so I don’t know if the lower classes relied on Lehigh […]
C. Reagles was no Louis Menand, but his Union Nurseries in Schenectady did have a wide reputation and his plants and seeds were sold by catalog all over. That Barrett […]
I know nothing about J. Xavier, dealing in fancy goods, toys, perfumery, &c. in Schenectady in 1862. But that illustration is incredible.
The last great store in Schenectady to carry just about everything was Wallace Armer Hardware, which gracefully closed its doors about 20 years ago. But Armer was clearly descended from […]
I’ll try for just a moment to focus only on the non-sexist elements of this Rinso detergent ad that ran in the Schenectady Gazette in 1921. Oh, wait. There […]
Beer and bologna. In 1862, Frederick P. Durr was running a saloon and bologna manufactory at 166 State Street in Schenectady.