More Schools of Albany, 1894
(Part One, which covered Schools One through Eight, is here.) So we were working our way through “The Public Schools of Albany, N.Y.,” a souvenir volume from 1894. For reasons […]
(Part One, which covered Schools One through Eight, is here.) So we were working our way through “The Public Schools of Albany, N.Y.,” a souvenir volume from 1894. For reasons […]
Some time back, we took a look at the inventory of Albany schools as they stood in 1922, along with some pictures of the ones that still stood in 2013. […]
Not precisely Albany, but we couldn’t help but notice this advertisement in the 1894 guide to Albany schools for the Smead System of Warming, Ventilation and Sanitation for School Buildings. […]
Lurie’s was a little remembered Schenectady department store at the corner of State and Ferry, which would have put it right in the vicinity of Barney’s. (It’s possible it was […]
So, what were the entertainment options for the family of leisure in Albany, back in January of 1891? You couldn’t complain there was nothing to do. At Proctor’s Theatre (oh […]
Another ad from 1894, in a publication about the Albany school system, proving that ads could be ridiculous and just a little inane even 120 years ago. The Walsh family […]
There’s no real Albany connection to the Milton Bradley Company, well-known game-makers of Springfield, Mass., but in 1894 they took out an ad in a book celebrating Albany public schools. […]
So we mentioned that during the Albany Chemical Company’s reign as the top producer of chloroform in the country, they were embroiled in some patent battles. Well, some decades later, […]
Albany was once America’s leading city for an awful lot of things. We moved the most lumber. We led the country in the manufacture of stoves and pianos. And it […]
Franklin D. Roosevelt, who spent a little bit of time in Albany himself, signed the Social Security Act into law on August 14, 1935. Social Security Cards were first issued […]