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3:4 image(s) by permission of David B. Martucci
image(s) from American City Flags,
Raven 9-10 (2002-2003),
courtesy of the North American Vexillological Association, which retains copyright.
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Text and image(s) from American City Flags, Raven 9-10 (2002-2003), courtesy of the North American Vexillological Association, which retains copyright. Image(s) from American City Flags by permission of David B. Martucci.
Albany's flag centers the city's coat of arms on a field of three equal horizontal stripes of orange, white, and blue. The city describes its arms in heraldic terminology:
The shield: Gules, two wheat sheaves Or, on a chief Azure a beaver felling a tree proper; For a crest: a Dutch sloop proper; For supporters: dexter, a farmer holding a sickle on his right arm and sinister is an Indian resting his left hand on a bow. For a motto: ASSIDUITY.
The coat of arms consists of a shield divided horizontally. The top third
section is blue with a beaver felling a tree in natural colors. The lower
two-thirds section is red with two yellow wheat sheaves. Above the
shield is a Dutch sloop under sail in natural colors on a heraldic wreath.
On the hoist side is a farmer holding a sickle on his right arm; on the fly
side is an Indian resting his left hand on a bow, both in natural colors.
The motto on the scroll at the bottom of the arms is ASSIDUITY.
James
Croft, American City Flags,
Raven
9-10,
2002-2003
The coat of arms signifies the early occupations of the city. The wheat
sheaves and the colonial farmer holding a sickle are for farming and
agriculture. The beaver reflects the fur trade between the Native American
people, symbolized by the Indian supporter, and the Dutch, and
later English, settlers. The Indian also represents the people who first
lived in this area. The Dutch sloop represents the commerce of the
area and Albany as a major port on the Hudson River.
James
Croft, American City Flags,
Raven
9-10,
2002-2003
By the Hudson Fulton Celebration Committee. In 1909 the Hudson Fulton Celebration
Committee first used the current city flag for the commemoration
of the 300th anniversary of the founding of Albany. Seven years later,
in 1916, the common council officially adopted this design.
James
Croft, American City Flags,
Raven
9-10,
2002-2003
Unknown.
James
Croft, American City Flags,
Raven
9-10,
2002-2003
Abstracted from the Albany Times Union:
"Albany's flag was created as part of the massive 1909 Hudson Fulton Celebration, which commemorated both the discovery of the Hudson River by Dutch explorer Henry Hudson and the invention of steam-powered navigation by Robert Fulton. That flag was adopted by the city sometime after the 1909 celebration, said state Assemblyman Jack McEneny, a prominent local historian." and "...in 1916, the city's Common Council voted to adopt a new flag, with the American colors of red, white and blue. The only thing that stopped that from happening was a veto by then-Mayor Joseph W. Stevens, McEneny said."Ned Smith, 30 November 2004
3:4 image(s) by permission of David B. Martucci
image(s) from American City Flags,
Raven
9-10 (2002-2003), courtesy of the North American Vexillological Association,
which retains copyright.
In 1752 the seal was altered—although similar in shape, it consisted only of a beaver cutting down a tree and the date, 1752.
The current seal was designed in 1789 and the common council legalized
it through an ordinance in 1888. It is a seal with the coat of arms
described above, except below ASSIDUITY appears Charter 1686.
At the top of the disk is The Seal of the City of Albany.
James
Croft, American City Flags,
Raven
9-10,
2002-2003
This graduate college has no flag.
Paul Bassinson, 11 June 2014
image by Randy Young, 26 February 2021
An image of the flag of the Albany City Police Department obtained from
https://www.facebook.com/AlbanyNYPolice/photos/a.10157200592042381/10157200594802381
shows it to be blue with the badge centered and the lettering in gold.
Paul Bassinson, 25 February 2021