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Albany - Exchange, & Museum

Description: Image of an eye-level street view of the corners of Broadway and State Streets in Albany, New York, showing the Exchange Bank on the right-hand corner, a museum on the left-hand corner, and surrounding businesses, with streets bustling with pedestrians, a street market, and horse-drawn carriages.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1846
Call number: priJLC_VIEW_000599
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.

Albany City Fire Insurance Co

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Image of an advertisement for Albany City Fire Insurance Company of Albany, New York; dozens of firefighters and several fire engines hurry around a corner in the commercial district of Albany towards a large fire blazing along the horizon at left; businesses include "Sprague Bookseller & Stationer," "L. Pruyn & Son Hardware," "Weed & Kingsley Law Office," "Hastings News Depot," "Morse Telegraph Office," "Frothingham's Druggists | Hatter," and "Albany City Fire Insurance Co." at the corner of State Street and Broadway; pedestrians and horse-drawn vehicles dodge the firefighters or look on in the busy streets; elaborate frame decorative border with list of directors and officers.

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Yale

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Image of a building with stairs leading to arched entries on a street corner, possibly part of Yale University, surrounded by tall trees; pedestrians, bicyclists, and horse and buggy carriages populate the street and sidewalk.

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Albany Museum

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Printer: Albany Morning Express Office - H.D. Stone, Printer

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St. Mary's Church. 1797. : The first Catholic Church in Albany

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Image of an elevated street view of the two-story St. Mary's Church in Albany, New York, depicted in the late 18th century, on a street corner with surrounding buildings, two women walking on the sidewalk, and a fort on the hill in the distance.

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Pan-Handle route : Union Passenger Station, Chicago, Ill

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Image of an elevated street view of the brick Union Passenger Station building in Chicago, Illinois, with a busy street scene in the foreground containing pedestrians, horse-drawn carriages and wagons, two men riding high-wheel bicycles, and people on horseback; a locomotive and train car are visible to the left and ship masts are visible behind the buildings; two lower corner vignettes depict an empty waiting room and porch.

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Albany Army Relief Bazaar February 22nd, 1864

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Image of scenes from the Albany Army Relief Bazaar held in Albany, New York, in 1864; outdoor winter scene at center with pedestrians and horse drawn sleighs on the road outside the Bazaar building surrounded by interior scenes depicting international exhibits and onlookers; vignettes of soldiers in a hospital and wounded on a battlefield at left and right; sculptures and busts in border with captions.

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