Archive for January, 2007
The Big Easy
With media operatives working for politicians, assorted commissioners, real estate developers and other non-civilians working the New York City goldmine, it’s nearly possible to believe that the glass truly is only half-empty. The stage in Gotham is one upon which the political charade is played as …
There Goes the Neighborhood
With some amusement we read Scoopy’s recent comments in The Villager. Lincoln Anderson’s gossipy column describes efforts that have been undertaken to reach representatives of the Trump SoHo project. Apparently Doris Diether, Chair of the Zoning Committee and Maria Derr, Chair of the Board, bot…
Program: Musical Albany of the 1820’s
What was musical life like in Albany in the 1820’s and what did the music sound like? On Wednesday, January 31, from 12:15 p.m to 1:15 p.m., Ann-Marie Barker Schwartz, Director and violinist of Musicians of Ma’alwyck, will discuss the formation of the Euterpean Club in 1823. that musical society, w…
Program: The Boss and the City Beautiful: Albany’s Waterfront 1900-1920
On Wednesday, January 10, from 12:15 p.m to 1:15 p.m., John Pipkin, Professor of Geography and Planning at SUNY Albany, will present a program outlining the political and aesthetic struggles by urban space that raged in Albany at the beginning of the twentieth century. Republican Boss Billy Barnes,…
January Feature: Final Report on the Battlefield of Gettysburg
The feature for January is one of the many historical documents the Library has recently scanned and made available online in PDF format. Final Report on the Battlefield of Gettysburg is a three-volume set that contains New York at Gettysburg by William F. Fox and includes regimental histories of…
New Finding Aid: U.S. Declaration of Independence Signers Collection
A finding aid (guide) is now available online for the State Library’s Declaration of Independence Signers collection, which consists of original manuscript letters and documents containing autographs of men who signed the Declaration of Independence. Engraved portraits of many of the signers are plu…
