North Country At Work

An aerial survey photo of the New York Air Brake Company. 1979. Watertown, NY. Photo by Henry deWolf. Courtesy of the Jefferson County Historical Society.

View of the H.H. Babcock building, showing the full name of the Babcock Carriage and Automobile. Circa 1910-1920. Photo by H.R. Huested. Watertown, NY. Courtesy of the Jefferson County Historical Society.

A view of the rear façade of the H.H. Babcock Carriage Company. You can see the river at the time of the 1913 flood behind the factory. March 28, 1913. Photo by C.J. Ryder. Watertown, NY. Courtesy of the Jefferson County Historical Society.

Women working in the laboratory of the Imperial Paper & Color Corporation. Circa 1950. Glens Falls, NY. Courtesy of the Chapman Museum.

Men in the shirtmakers’ shop of the Norris Factory on the corner of Maple and Culvert Streets. Pictured are E. Norris, Varney, Mahoney, and Charles Norris. Circa 1896. Glens Falls, NY. Courtesy of the Chapman Museum.

Inside the Kendrick and Brown lumber Company factory on Lawrence Street. Men work with planning and shaping machines. An elaborate system of ducts removes the sawdust as they work. 1900- 1910. Glens Falls, NY. Courtesy of the Chapman Museum.

Workers outside Staebler and Baker in Clayton, NY. Staebler and Baker (later Graphic Controls) manufactured items such as graph paper. The company was a steady source of employment in Clayton from the 1940s through the 1990s. Clayton, NY. Circa 1954. From the Thousand Islands Museum.

Workers pose outside the Clayton Manufacturing Company, which produced bathing suits and was a steady employer, especially of women. Clayton, NY. Circa 1920. From the Thousand Islands Museum.

An architect’s conceptual view of the 23,000 square feet addition to the Carthage Machine Company building. 1976. Carthage, NY. Courtesy of the Town of Wilna Historian’s Office Collection.

Men process maple sap in the interior of one of the Horseshoe Forestry Company buildings. Metal canners with spigots on the right and wooden barrels on the left. Men are reheating syrup in a boiler. Operations of the Horseshoe Forestry Company. Photograph by George W. Baldwin. 1901. Piercefield, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.