Friday, February 28, 2014

Friends and Neighbors: The Sketchbook of Grace Buck

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Drawings of Eugenie Des Jardins and Mrs. Mabel T. Buck. Eugenie Des Jardins was a classmate of Grace's who lived nearby on Oakwood ...
Friday, February 21, 2014

"A Street With a Past:" Images of Broadway

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Aerial view showing a portion of Broadway near the railroad tracks. The large white building was the Schenectady Paint and Varnish Co...
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Thursday, February 13, 2014

"If This Paper Trembles When You Read It:" A Mysterious Love Letter

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Incomplete love letter written by unknown woman, ca. 1790 (M-Letters-4).  Image from Mabee Family Papers , Grems-Doolittle Library.  T...
Friday, February 7, 2014

Remembering the Schenectady Massacre

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Schenectady Massacre by Samuel Sexton. Sexton focused primarily on portraiture, but this painting depicts the Massacre.  It portrays the ...
Thursday, January 30, 2014

Local Abolitionist Isaac Groot Duryee

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Isaac Groot Duryee in 1860. Image from Grems-Doolittle Library Photograph Collection.  Isaac Groot Duryee (sometimes spelled Duryea) wa...
Thursday, January 23, 2014

"First in Schenectady to Serve You Hot Dogs:" The New Way Lunch

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Local photographer John Papp captured this image of the New Way Lunch in October 1966, soon before the building was demolished and a ne...
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Thursday, January 16, 2014

A Waterway Gone Underground: Schenectady's Cowhorn Creek

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Local youths gather to watch workers pipe Cowhorn Creek, southeast of the present-day intersection of State Street and Broadway, in this ...
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