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Albany Institute of History & Art
Beautifully illustrated introduction and overview to the collections of the Albany Institute of History and Art
Two-year Report
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Cast With Style
Introduction to the influential cast-iron stoves manufactured in Albany and Troy in the nineteenth century
New World Dutch Studies
The history, culture, and lifeways of New Netherland as researched and interpreted by Dutch and American scholars.
Open-air Sketching
Nineteenth-century landscape and outdoor drawings and sketches by the Hudson River School artists and others.
Look-alikes
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The Mystery of the Albany Mummies
From the Nile to the Hudson, the story of how two Egyptian mummies joined an American museum collection. In 1909, two mummies, one dating from the 21st Dynasty and the other from the Ptolemaic Period, arrived in Albany, New York. Purchased from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo by Albany businessman Samuel Brown for the Albany Institute of History & Art (AIHA), they have been on continuous exhibition since then and are the most popular, celebrated, and best remembered of the museum’s collections. The story of their discovery in the tombs at Deir el-Bahri and their subsequent purchase by Brown, transport by steamship from Cairo to New York City, and steamboat travel to Albany was covered extensi...
Work and World of an Early Nineteenth-century Albany Potter
Overview of the life, work, times, and legacy of renowned Albany potter Paul Cushman (1767-1833)
Borders and Scrolls
Borders and Scrolls provides a fascinating glimpse of domestic wall painting in the historic Northeast. It looks in detail at how and why Americans in New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut decorated the walls of their houses in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Wallpaper was just too expensive for even well-to-do merchants and farmers, who turned to craftsmen to stencil and freehand paint the walls around them. Much of this exquisite domestic art does not survive today: houses were remodeled, some torn down; walls have been repainted, papered over, or removed. Striking examples of those that remain are found in this richly illustrated volume, which reveals intricate technical processes, schools of design, similar designs and techniques on other objects and media, and engrossing histories and stories surrounding the houses, families, and craft painters. Margaret Coffin is the author of Death in Early America: The History and Folklore of Customs and Superstitions of Early Medicine, Funerals, Burials, and Mourning and The History and Folklore of American Country Tinware, 1700–1900.
Matters of Taste
Published to accompany an exhibition held in Sept. 2002 by the Albany Institute of History and Art.
