North Country At Work

Dentist examines teeth in Prospect House. (Note the foot powered dentist’s drill to right of dentist.) Woman sits reading newspaper. 1890. Blue Mountain Lake, NY.

Silas Ives gives a shave in the Altamont Hotel Barber Shop. 1904. Tupper Lake, NY.

First barber shop in Tupper Lake. Note oil lamps. Circa 1880. Tupper Lake, NY.

Roland E. Douglas (owner) stands by barber’s chair in the Downtown Barber Shop.  Interior of Downtown Barber Shop. 1935. Lake Placid, NY.

Men, women, children, and dogs pose on the exterior porch of Spaulding’s Store. Circa 1900-1910. Morley, NY. Photo donated by Floyd Beswick.

Workers pour concrete into forms to build sidewalk in front of Spaulding’s Store in downtown Morley. Two workers use hoes to mix concrete in mixing tub. The Erwin House appears in the background. Circa 1900-1910. Morley, NY. Photo from the collection of Jo Ann Waite Zenger.

Mark Nassan runs a bike shop – “bicycles, human powered.” He’s been making bikes, doing repairs, and teaching the biking lifestyle at Leepoff Cycles, a custom bike shop in Keene Valley, for 21 years. Listen to Mark’s story here.

Workers in front of the Newton Falls post office and store. 1910s. Newton Falls, NY.

Men on the porch of a boarding house on Main Street in Newbridge. A few years later, a second-floor porch was added. 1909. Newbridge, NY.

View of Main Street, boarding house in the foreground. September 1911. Newbridge, NY.