Amber LaBaff has worked for five years at Clarkson University in various positions. Here she’s working at the campus coffee shop. Photographer is Sophie McKibben. 2015. Potsdam, NY.
Striking paper mill workers and their families in front of Camp Tylkoff, headquarters for the strikers. 450 paper mill employees went on strike with the intent to unionize. 1915. Deferiet, NY. Courtesy of the Town of Champion archives. For more information, check out our story on Deferiet’s strike.
Carolyn “Corky” Marlowe (left) and Doris Alexander dressed in scrubs. Both were a part of the Samaritan Medical Center Ambulatory Surgical Unit. 2010. Watertown, NY. Courtesy of Carolyn Marlowe. Click here for a North Country at Work story about how nursing has changed over the years. You can listen to Corky Marlowe talking about life […]
Employees of Sunfeather Soaps in front of the sign at their Route 72 location near the village of Parishville. Founder Sandy Maine is third from right. Parishville, NY. Check out our story on Sandy on her soap business.
Sandy Maine, owner and founder of Sunfeather Soaps, with rows of soap. 1980s or 1990s. Parishville, NY. Photo courtesy of Sandy Maine. Check out our story on Sandy on her soap business for more information.
Alice Keough standing in front of her summer motel. She started by converting a barn into a cottage and just kept building. Alice made all the curtains, bedspreads, and did the interior decorating. She was one of the first businesswomen in Saranac Lake. Around 1930. Saranac Lake, NY. Photo courtesy of Ronald Keough. For more […]
Sally and David Hartman, Lisa, Mike, James, and Ralph Hammond planting tree groupings. Trees were planted across the North Country to replace those destroyed in the 1998 Ice Storm. 2001. Rensselaer Falls, NY. For more information, check out our story on the re-planting.
Jane Thompson and Bryan Thompson hold and are surrounded by a flock of turkeys her family was raising for Heuvelton’s turkey markets. Circa late 1950s. Heuvelton, NY. Photo courtesy of Bryan Thompson. Check out our story on Heuvelton’s turkey days.
Edwin Hadlock (left), son Doug, and wife Joan with their tractor. They were out planting field and sweet corn to sell at their farm stand. 1971. Hammond, NY. Photo courtesy of Joan Hadlock. Click here to check out our story on the Hadlocks.
The Rockwood family (left to right): June, Alice, Rose, and Allen, by an automobile in front of their farmhouse. Photo courtesy of John Stano. Early 1930s. Pillar Point, NY. Check out our story on the Rockwood family farm.
