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Incredible photos by Lewis Wickes Hine, photographer and reformer, ca. 1910. (Incredible music by Seasick Steve.)
Summertime
and the swingin’ is easy.
First Church, Albany
First Church, the Dutch Reformed Church in Albany, dates to 1642, making it the oldest church in upstate and one of the very oldest in the country. This building dates to 1799, when the congregation moved from the stone church at Broadway and State Street to the outskirts of town, at Clinton and Pearl.
A friendly reminder
Handle Negatives by edges ONLY. They scratch and fingerprint easily.
“Daddy, what are negatives?”
Remington Noiseless
“It became evident in the spring of 1875 that a machine printing capitals alone would not grow rapidly in the popular esteem, and Byron A. Brooks, of New York, who had begun as early as 1867 to solve the problem of mechanical writing, devised a plan for using two alphabets, capitals and small letters, with one key-board. Mr. Brooks was a professor of mathematics, noticing that the type-bar became at the moment of contact a tangent to the circumference of the printing platen, and that by moving the platen slightly forward or back the tangency no longer existed but a new center was created, devised a double-headed type-bar containing both a capital and a lower-case letter. . . The new machine was called the Remington No. 2.”
(This picture is of the No. 6, which took the concept to another extreme and put two sets of characters on each type-bar.)
En pointe
From a couple of years back. I’m resorting to a photograph today because, believe it or not, untangling the history of billiard ball manufacture in Albany is more complicated than you might have thought.