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North Wall
Panel 1 (over door to peristyle)
1609 Henry Hudson's Half Moon sailing up the Hudson. At the left are to be seen the Indian tents of that period which were made by bending together saplings and covering them with skins or bark.
Panel 2 (in the narrow recess at the left of the arch)
1660 Stage coach with four horses in front of the original Van Rensselaer Manor House.
Panel 3 (left half of large panel within the arch)
1700 Based on an old picture of Albany supposed to have been made in France in 1783. (Evidently the Frenchman was not too familiar with the region as the original contained palm trees.) From the flourishing beaver trade came the old name of Beverwyck for Albany. The sloops in the river were used to carry the pelts to New York.
Panel 4 (right half of panel in arch)
c.1770 Based on a picture of State St. in 1805 by Jonathan Eights, reprinted by Benjamin Lossing in an article in Harpers Monthly, Feb. 1857.
Panel 5 (in narrow recess at right of arch)
1783 Constitution House in Kingston. A secretary is reading the federal constitution to the crowd which has gathered. It will be noticed that this picture balances the one in panel 2 and represents the conquest of English constitutional government over Dutch feudalism.
Panel 6 (north wall at right of arch)
1825 The Erie canal. As no good picture was found, the scene was created out of the artist's imagination and boyhood memories. To navigate the canal at that date a vessel must not draw more than four feet of water or be more than twelve feet wide.
East Wall
Panel 1
1831 The Albany station of the Mohawk and Hudson River railroad. In 1844 this was occupied by the newly established State Normal School.
Panel 2
The house of the Widow Visscher. Lossing in 1857 speaks of the Indians coming to her house, also of the Widow Vissher chasing them out with a broom when they were drunk.
Panel 3
1844 The second building occupied by the college.
Panel 4
1776 Fort Crailo. The fife and drum corps are playing Yankee Doodle which was composed here.
South Wall
Panel 1
1777 After the battle of Saratoga, General Schuler receives General Burgoyne in Albany at the Schuyler mansion.
Panel 2
1754 The Albany plan of union is being discussed by Franklin and his associates.
Panel 3
1754 The first state house or capitol in Albany as shown in Munsell's History.
Panel 4
1754 The Indians are holding their own council in regard to Franklin's plan.
Panel 5
1642 Isaac Jogues, the Jesuit missionary to the Mohawks, taken prisoner by them but contriving to make good his escape to Fort Orange.
Panel 6
1650 Fort Orange.
Panel 7
c.1800 Vander Heyden Palace, used as first school for higher education in Albany.
Panel 8
18030 The State Bank, Philip Hooker architect.
Panel 9
Panels 9-10 typify the light of knowledge. Panel 9 shows college campus with students from various classes through the ages. Minerva can be seen outside of Hawley Hall.
Panel 10
Gideon Hawley (talking to young man), Horace Mann, William J. Milne and Andrew Sloane Draper are shown in academic costume. An old Dutch school teacher is also shown. The college in its academic pursuits is set apart from trade and commerce yet it is dependent upon them for its support. Therefore in the distance there is a suggestion of buildings which typify industrial life. A State College student is shown practicing for a track meet.
Panel 11
19180 State College as a training camp during the World War.
West Wall
Panel 1
Continues State College as a training camp.
Panel 2
Shows land today, as in 1609, uncultivated.
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