Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
PHOTO BY S. TOMMER/COURTESY OF THE NEW YORK STATE ARCHIVES
Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, center, Albany Mayor Erastus
Corning, left, and Lt. Gov. Malcom Wilson appear at the
unveiling of the South Mall model in the Capitol on April 23, 1963.