TRICENTENNIAL FLAG
Note: This piece is shown crated for transportation. PORTRAITS*...View Details »
Note: This piece is shown crated for transportation.
PORTRAITS* on “Tri-centennial Flag” – 1986
Reading from top to bottom row and left to right on each row:
- Henry Hudson – came to sight of Albany in 1609
- Kiliaen Van Rensselaer – plan for permanent settlement, 1629 granted Rensselaerswyck
- Pieter Stuyvesant – Gov. of New Netherland, 1648 – 1664
- James Stuart – Duke of York and Albany, 1683
- Governor Dongon, 1683
- Petier Schuyler – 1664 – first Mayor of Albany, 1686
- Iroquois indian, 1664 – befriended by and loyal to Pieter Schuyler
- Black artisan, 1714
End of first row
- Philip Livingston – Albany born, signed Declaration of Independence, 1776
- Samuel Stringer – prominent 18th C. physician – donated land for Albany’s Masonic Lodge
- Abraham Ten Broeck – Mayor, 1779
- Philip Hooker – Architect: First Dutch Church, Albany Academy, Ten Broeck Mansion, 1797
- Elkanah Watson – revived idea of Erie Canal, 1804
- Robert Fulton – designed steamboat, Clermont, 1807
- Benjamin Allen – First Headmaster, A.A., 1813
- Horace Goodrich, First Principal, A.A.G., 1814
- De Witt Clinton – Governor, 1817 – 1828 – Promoted construction of Erie Canal
- James Eights – paintings portrayed Albany to turn of 18th C., 1840
End of second row
- Ezra Ames – Albany portrait painter, 19th – 20th
- Stephen Van Rensselaer – last Patroon – established Albany – Schenectady Rail Line, 1831
- Joseph Henry – electromagnetic pioneer, teacher, A.A. 1845
- Mayor Charles E. Dudley – doner, Dudley Observatory, 1850
- Isaac Mayer Wise – First Rabbi, Congregation Anshe Emeth, 1850
- George Amsdell – 19th brewer
- Joel Munsell – 19th printer and Albany historian
- Erastus Corning Sr. – iron merchant and 19th founder of New York Central R.R.
- Harmanus Bleecker – 1800’s – his legacy built the Library and Hall
- Thomas Olcott – built Executive Mansion, 1850 (first leased to State, 1875)
End of 3rd row
- Mayor George H. Thatcher – allowed abolitionists to assemble, 1861
- Thomas Fuller – collaborated with Arthur D. Gilman on design for Capital, 1867 – to be superseded in 1874 by Leopold Eidlitz and H. H. Richardson
- Adam Blacke – acquired Congress Hotel, torn down, 1867 – used proceeds to build the Kenmore (segregated!)
- John Wesley Hyatt – invented celluloid, 1868 – led to Peter Kinnear’s forming Albany Billiard Ball Co.
- William Croswell Doane – First Episcopal Bishop, 1868 – against Women’s Suffrage
- Albert Vander Veer – prominent surgeon, Albany Hospital, professor, Albany Medical College, 1869
- Marie Ema Lajernesse – opera singer whose career started at St. Joseph’s Church, Ten Broeck St., 1870
- Erastus Dow Palmer – 19th Albany Sculptor
- Michael M. Nolan – First Irish Catholic Mayor, 1878
- H. Richardson – designer, City Hall
- William J. Milne – first President, Albany Normal School, 1889
- Marcus T. Reynolds – dismantled and moved Van Rensselaer Manor House to Williams College 1892 – D. & H. Bldg. – Municipal Gas Co. – A.A., 1930
- Sophie High Dog – education funded, 1897 – Women of the Albany branch of the Indian Assoc.
- John V. L. Pruyn – active v.s. Women’s suffrage
- William F. Barnes, Jr. – grandson of Thurlow Weed – controlled “Albany Evening Journal” and Republican Party, 1900
- William Henry Johnson – brought about passage of laws eliminating segregation and discrimination in public places and institutions, 1900
- Fritz De Beer, Sr. – moves Baseball Factory to Albany, 1916
- Robert Fulton – “Clermont”, 1807
- Daniel P. O’Connell – Democrat elected to Board of Assessors, 1918
- David Lithgow – Albany Painter of its History – designer of Spanish – American War Memorial, Townsend Park, late 19th and 20th
- Alice Morgan Wirght – sculptor and suffragist, early 10th
- Alice McEneny Mc Cullen – founder Octavo School, 1926
- Russel White – designer, Washington Park Lake House, 1927
- John Boyd Thatcher – Mayor, 1929 – for municipal relief
- Gertrude K. Lathrop – sculptor, early to mid 20th
- Edward Buyck – painter, 1950
- Nelson Rockefeller – Father of the “South Mall”, 1962
- Erastus Corning, II – elected Mayor, 1942
- John J. Mc Eneny – Commissioner of Human Resources, 1986 – (whose book, Albany, I have relied heavily upon)
End of 5th row
- Les Urbach – Director of Center Galleries
- Peter Kiernan – Chair. And Pres., Norstar – restoration of Union Station
- Lewis Swyer – His Co. a prominent element of change in Albany – a strong supporter of Arts, 1986
- Betty Warren – Portrait painter of prominent and lesser Albanians, 20th – 1986
- David Coughtry – landscape painter of the Albany and Hudson River scene, 20th – 1986
- Pat Snyder – Director E.S.I.P.A., 20th 1986
- Norman Rice – Director of Albany Institute of History and Art, 20th – 1986
- William Kennedy – 1986 – Albany author of Albany – Pulitzer Prize winner
- Mayor Thomas Whalen, III – 1986
- Don Rittner – botanist – author and crusader for the Pine Bush, Albany’s last frontier, 1986
- Leonard Castle – composer and musician, 1986
- Joseph T. Lyons – Publisher of Capital Newspapers, 1986
- John Picotte – Corporate Realtor, supporter, with his family, of the Arts
- Your Choice
End of 6th row
painted laminated/turned wood
40"x65"x16"
1986
Photography by Robert Near