Rightfully Ours: Our Voices, Our Choices
Rightfully Ours: Our Voices, Our Choices Deb Vincent, Director of Youth Programs Thanks to the tireless and unrelenting efforts of women like Daisy Lampkin, our country granted the Constitutional right…
Jonathan Jones
Jonathan Jones Jonathan Jones is the City of Albany’s Commissioner of Recreation, Youth and Workforce Services, where he has served since January 2014. In his current position, he has initiated…
Gretchen Sorin
Gretchen Sorin I learned to love museums while prowling around the galleries of the Newark Museum with my brother when we were children. I found CGP as a college undergraduate…
Pen
Bag 1008, Item 20 Pen. Cooper-alloy. Post 1861 This object is part of an E.Faber (Eberhand Faber) fountain pen. The company was known as Eberhand Faber Pencil Company, which was…
Whiteware Fragments
Bag 1013 Item, Item # 8 Whiteware. Ceramic. Base of plate. Origin: 1805-present Whiteware was common after 1820 and was popular because it was the cheapest form of kitchenware. For…
Blue-Transfer Print
Bag # 1008, Item #1 Whiteware. Ceramic. Blue-transfer print. Recovered from Myers Residence. Date of origin: 1817-1834 (Stamford 1987) This type of ceramic blue print was developed in Stafford, England…
Glass Fragments
HAA 1812, Bag 13, Item 4 – glass fragments, greenish tint, may be from 19th century bottle.
Bone fragment
HAA 1812, Bage 13, Item 12 – Bone fragment. Found on one of the HAA summer digs on the properties connected with the Myers Residence. Chicken, Beef or Pork?
Whitewear
HAA 1813, Bage 13, item 3 – Small fragment of clay whitewear. Probably part of a plate or crockery.
Nail Fragments
Box 1812, Bag 13, Item 7 – Two nail fragments from one of the digs. They are rough corroded metal and reddish brown in color. You can almost see the…
