Albany Gallery

Scenes in and around Albany, 1874. Creator: John J. Harley

Scenes in and around Albany, 1874. Washington Park; in Rural Cemetery; Greenbush Ferry Slip; Flats above the City; City from the North; Lumber & Coal Boats, Albany, New York State, USA. Albany...is a great railroad centre, and the main point of departure for Western travellers. It is the terminus of nearly all the great steamboat lines of the Hudson...Up and down the river, the city stretches far and wide, with coaling-stations and founderies to the south, and, to the north, long ranges of cattle-wards'. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]

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Funeral of the Duke of Albany: The procession entering Windsor Castle, 1884, (1900)

Funeral of the Duke of Albany: The procession entering Windsor Castle, 1884, (1900). Queen Victoria's son Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, had haemophilia. He died after a fall, apparently from the effects of morphine and claret. He was buried in the Albert Memorial Chapel at Windsor. Illustration from The Life and Times of Queen Victoria, by Robert Wilson, Volume IV, (Cassell and Company, London, Paris, New York, Melbourne, 1900)

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