Building on the left is grist mill and boarding house; on the right is a cheese factory. Both part of the Jerden/Jordan Falls tannery operation, circa 1920. Town of Diana, NY.
The tunnel camps. Looking north, showing Mr. and Mrs. L.D. Raymond, cook and caretaker. Peter Lobdell was the logging foreman. Photo taken by Grant W. Humes, 1922. Harrisville, NY.
Tunnel camps, housing for loggers, in use up to about 1920. Harrisville, NY. Circa 1900.
(Left to right) Merle Mayhew Valentine, Hazel Chadwick, Myrtle Mantle, Kendrick Shaw, Pearl Shaw, Dorothy Mayhew Reeder, Libbie Cring Koster, Eliazar Shaw. Unloading sap tub from special undersling gathering sap wagon, at Warren Humes’ sugar house, probably on a weekend when the children came to visit. Harrisville, NY. Circa 1910.
(Right to left) Warren Humes, Mrs. Coulon, Hazel B. Worden, Ward Saunders, Wendell Humes, Dan Cleveland. Taken at Warren Humes’ sugarbush. To the far right is the big kettle to boil syrup in, Warren Humes testing temperature. Hired help and sons pictured as well. Harrisville, NY. Circa 1910.
Sugar bush camp. From left to right, Ernest Chadwick, Kendrick Shaw, Eliazar Shaw, Pearl Shaw and child, Myron Humes, and Lyman Humes. After-hours recreation, a friendly card game. Harrisville, NY. Circa 1911. Related story, here.
Sugaring camp of Edgar Mantle, neighbor of Warren Humes; they went back and forth as neighbors do. Harrisville, NY. Circa 1912.
Pleasant View Hotel with hotel employees and possibly guests. Harrisville, NY. Circa 1900.
Cheese factory near Nye home. Fifty gallon milk cans seen on milk wagon, being lifted by winch for unloading. Caption says: Uncle Jerome Nye wearing white shirt, Uncle is driving Old Bill. Circa 1890s. Harrisville, NY.
Warren Humes (far left), Myron Humes (next to woman) at a hunting camp at Warren Humes’ hotel, Forest Home. Note deer hanging near woman with rifle on her shoulder. Others unknown. Harrisville, NY. Circa 1890. Related story, here.
