North Country At Work

Horse drawn bobsled transporting logs in winter in front of Roberts & Nichols dry goods store. Looking west from River street. Circa 1890-1900. Elizabethtown, NY. Donated by H.M. MacDougal.

View of Main Street before paving, featuring lots of telephone wires and gasoline/kerosene street lamp on left. Circa 1890-1900. Morristown, NY.

Exterior of the A. Barton Hepburn Hospital and nursing school. Ogdensburg, NY. Circa 1920s. Check out our story on what it was like to be a Hepburn nursing student in the 1940s here.

Ogdensburg trolley in use on bridge over Oswegatchie River. Ogdensburg, NY. Circa 1910.

Demolition of city hall in Ogdensburg, NY. Circa 1930.

Rebuilding city hall in Ogdensburg, NY. Circa 1930.

H.B. Howard Grocery and E. Normand Meat Market at 2 Lake Street in Ogdensburg, NY. H.B. Howard delivery wagon in foreground. Circa 1890.

People milling about the bustling McNaughton Market on Isabella Street in Ogdensburg, NY. Next door is Frank’s Department Store. Circa 1930.

Setting up a circus tent, circa 1870s. Offices of the Press Republican newspaper visible in back ground. Ogdensburg, NY.

Looking west from the corner of State and Ford Streets, the business section of Ogdensburg, NY. Traffic cop in street directing cars. 1950s.