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Log drivers in an Adirondack Camp

Camp of Adirondack log drivers holding logging tools, with tents and kitchen wagon in the background.

Caption under photo reads: Camp of Adirondack River Drivers. Traveling kitchen, or cook-shanty in background. Circa 1890-1900. In the Adirondacks. F.A. Van Sant was the photographer. Originally in History of the lumber industry in the state of New York, by William H. Fox Forest, Fish & Game Commission report, 1900. (Unknown precise location.)

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