Albany, Home of Bobsledding
Just in time for the Olympics, this post is. Or it will be if I backdate it. The folks at...
The Hawk Street Viaduct
A few weeks back Paula at Albany Daily Photo wrote about the Hawk Street Viaduct, which prompted me to dig...
Surgery for the Eye and Ear
Surgery for the Eye and Ear, originally uploaded by carljohnson. From an 1860-something Albany directory. I don’t know what’s wrong...
Palace Marquee
Image by carljohnson via Flickr When they designed the new Palace Theater marquee, they didn’t fool around. In fact, they...
So where was celluloid invented?
For years I’ve meant to get a picture of this marker, located next to a defunct Friendly’s restaurant not far...
Corruption at the Capitol, 1910-style
Tne New International Year Book, “A Compendium of the World’s Progress for the Year 1910,” provides a neat little summary...
Schenectady newsies, Albany corruption: 1910
It’s Schenectady’s turn. Apparently during his documentation of child labor in 1910, Lewis Wickes Hine visited the Electric City, too....
The City of the Dead
Albany Rural Cemetery pond, originally uploaded by carljohnson. This is the city of the dead As we lie side by...
Albany Newsies, 1910
Back in February 2010, I wrote a little bit on what I could find about the lives of the newsies...
Know your Presidents!
Image by carljohnson via Flickr In honor of Presidents’ Day, our generation’s way of efficiently ignoring our country’s heritage of...