North Country At Work

Drive of pulp wood logs on a branch of the Boquet River. Management posing with the “peaveys,” hook tools with sharp pointed end used to roll logs. Circa 1890- 1900. Essex County in NY. H.M MacDougal was donor.

Twelve of Frank Peterson’s log drivers on the Boquet River. Drivers’ names from left : Frank Peterson, unidentified, Philip Ezro, Lewis Lashway, Fred Longware, Nelson Fleury, John Rumney, Peter Fleury, Tuffield Fleury, unidentified, Albert Pierce, George Lashway. Circa 1900-1908. Essex County, NY.