I don’t know anything about Adams of 91 and 93 North Pearl St., but in 1891 they were having a big sale on every kind of furniture, not to mention […]

The Albany Hand-book, 1881: African Methodist Episcopal Church, The, is at 365 Hamilton st. Colored folks worship here, but white people are also welcome so long as they behave themselves. […]

Again from The Albany Hand-Book of 1881, of which we can never get enough: Academy Park, consists of one and eighty-two one-hundredths acres, bounded by Elk and Eagle sts., Washington […]

From The Albany Hand-Book of 1881: Abattoir, The, or public slaughterhouse is situated on Brevator st., nearly three miles west of the City Hall. Slaughtering is prohibited (except by consent […]

In the very back pages of the endlessly fascinating “Albany Hand-Book” for 1881 (“A Strangers’ Guide and Residents’ Manual”) is an appendix chronicling local events for 1880. So let’s see […]

It would appear that I have never before taken in the florid advertising stylings of Hiram Ferguson, designer, photographer, and engraver in wood, who worked out of the “Bank Building” […]

While we’re on the subject of the 1881 “Albany Hand-book,” let’s note its peculiar entry regarding birds: “The bird-stores of a city are always interesting places to visit, especially to […]

I really have no idea what Henry L. Smith & Bro. meant when they said there’s “Lots of Meat in this!” They were referring, in 1891, to their sale on […]