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Drivers at the “Big Boom” on the Hudson River in Glens Falls

Logging drivers, pikes in hand, at the big boom (a barrier set up to stop logs on a river) in Glens Falls on the Hudson River. Circa 1890s. Glens Falls, NY.

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