A rainbow-colored sign with a line drawing of books on a shelf, with the title "Read Queer Books" superimposed, is displayed around a marble column in an old city library in Troy, New York.
#Troy NY's Hart Library gets it.
#lgbtq #LGBTrights #library #libraries #TroyNY #CollarCity
Newspaper advertisement from 1850 that says "Never despair while J.C. Mattices' Wholesale & Retail Clothing and Furnishing Establishment is in existence at 210 River St. Troy"
I regret to inform you that Mattices' has long since closed, and despair is now an option.
#oldNewspapers #advertising #UpstateNY #UpstateNewYork #TroyNewYork #TroyNY #CollarCity
Newspaper advertisement from 1850 that says "Never despair while J.C. Mattices' Wholesale & Retail Clothing and Furnishing Establishment is in existence at 210 River St. Troy"
We used to have a reason not to despair:
#LocalHistory #UpstateNY #UpstateNewYork #TroyNY #CollarCity
Photograph of an urban alley scene. in the midst of a work brick wall is the lower half of a window with a stone sill. The window is covered in simple iron bars, painted red like the bricks. There are nine or ten bars across the space, with a horizontal member connecting them toward the sill. Perched between two of the bars to the right is a white paper coffee cup, with a dark cardboard sleeve and a plastic lid, like every takeout coffee cup in the world.
Just a #photograph I took last year. #photography #urban #urbanPhotography #troy #troyNY #CollarCity #EnjoyTroy
A photograph of Franklin Alley in Troy, where a pop-up vintage shop has wares on display in front of a brick wall featuring mural art. The mural is on a plain brick wall, with stenciled type as from an old advertisement that reads: "Passenger Route between New York & Montreal and Intermediate Places via Troy & Saratoga Springs." A grayscale painting of a working man, a track oiler, overlaps the type. He is wearing a cloth railroad cap, a plaid flannel jacket over a gray pocketed button-down shirt, with what appear to be heavyweight pants beneath. He is turned in a 3/4 pose, face in profile and looking down at the long-necked oiling can he holds in his left hand, which points down to what we can assume are railroad tracks. In front of the artwork, to the left we can see an open trunk lid from which women's garments are hanging, a pink floral top and a black and white dotted skirt. in front of all of that is a mannequin with only the bottom half of a faceless head, wearing a light blue denim jacket with huge pearl-like buttons with decorative metal rosette trime, under which is a flowered and black-dotted top.
Working clothes.
Just a #TroyNY street scene that caught my eye.
#photography #photograph #photographer #StreetScene #urban #Troy #CollarCity #upstateNY #mural #murals #PublicArt
