I miss letterhead
If you got a letter from Nikola Tesla in 1900, it would have been on this gorgeously printed letterhead. Related...
Hoxsie!
For reasons that mostly have to do with how much I love this 1862 advertisement, bits of local history will...
The other one
Barnes & Noble 3-20-11 DSC_2176.jpg, originally uploaded by carljohnson. I could have put up the pic where she stuck her...
Swimming is forbidden
From the 1884 “Albany Hand-Book, A Stranger’s Guide and Residents’ Manual”: “Swimming in the river near the shores or wharves,...
Park & Shop
Just by chance, a post on another blog caught my eye a few weeks back and brought back memories long...
Letter from home
The Smithsonian National Museum of American History’s blog has an interesting article on a little piece of correspondence from George...
The highway that isn’t there
Sometimes, the most beautiful highway is the one that isn’t there. Over at All Over Albany, I write about the...
Crossing the Hudson (bridges edition)
The Livingston Avenue Bridge, the graceful and anachronistic swing bridge that carries trains across the Hudson River at Albany and...
Shocked, shocked!
…to find that gambling is going on in here! From Whish’s 1917 “Albany Guide Book”: Athletic sports always have been...