Hawkins Stadium Albany New York Former home of the Albany Senators (Double-A) All photographs in this series appear courtesy of Chris Hunter of the Schenectady Museum and Science Center from the G.E. Collection of Historic Photographs (special thanks to Stephen L.J. Russo) |
Before we delve into the amazing history of this once historic ballpark, we will
first tell you what you're about to look at. General Electric was responsible for
installing lighting stantions all over the globe as well as street lighting
and neon signs and department store emblems and the like. When they completed a
job, G.E. took a full coverage of photographs showing their work. Luckily for
us, G.E. was responsible for installing lighting in many of North America's Ballparks
and thanks to Chris Hunter of the Schenectady Museum and Science Center...
all of these ballpark installation photographs have been donated to Digitalballparks.com,
and will become a permanent part of our stadium galleries. We cannot
thank Chris Hunter and Steven L.J. Russo (director of the Schenectady Science
Cener Planetarium) enough, because as you will see... some of these photographs
are simply priceless. For those who are further interested, there are tens of thousands of photographs of 1930's-1950's America in the G.E. Photographic Collection not related to ballparks... displaying the most interesting of pre and post WWII "Americana". We encourage anyone to visit the archives and the incredible exhibits (the first T.V.'s, the first washing machines, the first refrigerators, the first air conditioners...) as well as state of the art planetarium displays at this tremendously under-rated museum and science center. You'll want to make a day of it |