Governor Hugh Carey with Queen Beatrix and Prince Claus of the Netherlands, 1982

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Gov. Hugh Carey at the Executive Mansion, December 1980

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Governor and Mrs. Lehman having tea in the Executive Mansion with their children, John, Peter and Hilda

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Governor and Mrs. Averell Harriman in front of the Executive Mansion with their dog, Brum in 1958

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Governor Al Smith and Governor Nathan Miller leaving the Mansion on January 1, 1921 for Gov. Miller’s inauguration

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Governor and Mrs. Thomas Dewey and their sons, Thomas Jr. and John, with Gerry, their Great Dane, 1948

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Governor Hugh Carey at the Executive Mansion, December 1980

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Governor Herbert Lehman holding a meeting in the Breakfast Room

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Governor Lehman entertains visiting governors and their wives in the back yard of the Executive Mansion in 1939

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Governor Lehman at his desk in the Executive Mansion with staff member

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Governor Averell Harriman and Joe DiMaggio at the Executive Mansion, 1955

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In 1887 Isaac Perry, the bearded gentlemen in the center, expanded and redesigned the Executive Mansion, while he worked as the fifth architect of the New York State Capitol. He converted the Mansion into the Queen Anne style house it remains today.

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First Lady Mary Todhunter Rockefeller at her first press conference in 1959. At 5’10 ½” she removed her shoes as she showed reporters a painting from the governor’s modern art collection, so as not to tower over them

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Mrs. Averell Harriman hosts a tea party in the Executive Mansion Dining Room in the 1950s. Mrs. Edwin Corning, mother of Albany’s long-serving mayor, stands at her side.

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First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt knitting in the Memory Room, 1932

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April 1940 Governor Herbert H. Lehman tackles the pile of bills left on his desk by the 1940 legislature

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Governor and Mrs. Thomas Dewey at a press conference at the Executive Mansion during the presidential campaign of 1948

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Governor and Mrs. Al Smith casting their ballots

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Governor William Sulzer (Jan. 1, 1913 –Oct. 17, 1913) was the first and only New York governor to be impeached after being accused and convicted of misusing campaign funds. He is pictured in the Executive Chamber at the Capitol.

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Governor Sulzer testifying during his impeachment proceedings, 1913.

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Governor Al Smith at a charity dinner for the Newsboys Lodging House in New York City. Gov. Smith had worked as a newsboy.

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December 31, 1928, newly elected Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lt. Governor Herbert H. Lehman and outgoing Gov. Smith at the Mansion for the traditional midnight swearing-in ceremony.

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