For offer, an ORIGINAL Operahouse season ticket pass / card. Fresh from an attic estate in Upstate / Western NY. Never offered on the market until now. Vintage, Old, antique, Original - NOT a Reproduction - Guaranteed !! Rosa M Leland owned and operated the Leland Opera house in Albany New York. 14th season, 1885. For Mr. H. P. Phelps of the Evening Times. Excellent condition. Please see photos for details. If you collect Americana advertisement ad, music, entertainment, theater / theatre, 19th century Victorian American history, Upstate Central NY, Albany County, etc., this is one you will not see again soon. A nice piece for your paper or ephemera collection. Perhaps some genealogy research information as well. Combine shipping on multiple purchases. 3955
Albany (/ˈɔːlbəni/ ⓘ AWL-bə-nee) is the capital city of the U.S. state of New York. It is also the county seat of, and the most populous city in, Albany County. Albany is located on the west bank of the Hudson River, approximately ten miles (16 km) south of its confluence with the Mohawk River. Its population was 99,224 at the time of the 2020 census and was estimated at 101,317 in 2024.
The oldest city in New York, the City of Albany is the economic and cultural core of New York State's Capital District. The Capital District is a metropolitan area including the nearby cities and suburbs of Colonie, Troy, Schenectady, and Saratoga Springs. With an estimated 913,000 residents, the Capital District is the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the state.
The area that later became Albany was originally inhabited by Algonquian-speaking Mohican.[10] The area was settled by Dutch colonists, who built Fort Nassau in 1614 for fur trading and Fort Orange in 1624. In 1664, the English took over the Dutch settlements, renaming the city Albany in honor of the Scottish title of the Duke of York (later James II of England and Ireland and James VII of Scotland): the Duke of Albany.[11][12] The city was officially chartered in 1686 under English rule. It became the capital of New York in 1797 after the formation of the United States. Albany is the oldest surviving settlement of the original British Thirteen Colonies north of Virginia.[13]
In the late 18th century and throughout most of the 19th, Albany was a center of trade and transportation. The city lies toward the north end of the navigable Hudson River. It was the original eastern terminus of the Erie Canal and was home to some of the earliest railroads in the world. In the 1920s, a powerful political machine controlled by the Democratic Party arose in Albany. Albany's population shrank because of urban sprawl and suburbanization in the latter part of the 20th century. In the 1990s, the New York State Legislature approved for the city a US$234 million building and renovation plan, which spurred downtown redevelopment.[14] Since the 2000s, the economy of Albany and the surrounding Capital District has been directed toward high technology.