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...
Hoxsie!
Hoxsie!, originally uploaded by carljohnson. From the Schenectady City Directory for 1862-63, my favorite image ever. Ever. No, I don’t...
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....
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...
A Tourist’s Guide through Albany
Among the delights and pleasures of the worldwide web, Google Books, and public domain is the ability to discover, dissect,...
Albany’s only “garage-IN” hotel!
Much has been written about the demise (and hopefully redevelopment) of Albany’s Wellington Hotel. Saving the facade of the Wellington,...
The city gone by
It’s hard to imagine how different the Albany of the past was from the Albany of today, how different the...
Albany Girl Weds Prince of Spain
As I was preparing the new section of my website, Torn From Yesterday’s Headlines!, I was organizing a set of...