Cameras, Contracts, and the Plot Against the N.Y. Capitol
A survey of Capital District surveillance infrastructure, prompted by a plot against the Capitol
Restoration Obscura
Welcome to Restoration Obscura—where photography and history intersect. This Substack uncovers the hidden histories within forgotten photographs and the stories they reveal about our shared world. Every picture has a story.
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The Beep and the Dead Hand
The automated systems of nuclear war, and the dead hand still waiting to launch.
The Lock Under Water Street
The Excavation of Albany’s First Erie Canal Lock
New York's WMD Response Team in Scotia
Inside the unit that answers chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear threats.
Oppenheimer in Schenectady
Before Los Alamos: The Capital Region’s Manhattan Project Connections
The 1987 Max Headroom Incident
The most famous unsolved broadcast crime in America
The Uranium on Central Avenue
The radioactive legacy of National Lead in Albany, New York.
The Mystery Flash
The Vela incident of 1979
The Lake George Monster
The Marine Ogre in the Narrows
270 Degrees
Saratoga's Devil's Chair and Rensselaer County's Mysterious Stone Throne
State Street | Albany, NY | 1890-1910
Historical Open Source Intelligence Image Analysis
Beneath New York State's Capitol
An analysis of the Capitol's stonework, visible for the first time in 157 years