Office of WD Evans, manufacturer of farm implements. Pictured are two employees; the woman on the left was bookkeeper Fan More. The office was located within the “Frank Felt block.” 1914. Hammond, NY.
Two women, possibly employees, standing outside Helene Dunham Paddock and Addie Youngs Gibson’s Beauty Shop, where one could get a haircut for 35 cents. It was located on the ground floor of Will Grant’s house. Circa 1920s. Hammond, NY.
New York Central Depot office, which sold tickets for trains and had a telephone. Ticket window visible on left. Pictured are the Jones couple and their son Stephen. Circa 1900 – 1910. Hammond, NY.
Phone and telegraph operator Vera McDougall at the switch board. Circa 1940s. Hammond, NY. Related story, here.
Sturgeon taken from the St. Lawrence River by Lawrence Taylor. Circa late 1940s or early 1950s. Hammond, NY. Check out this North Country at Work story on one man’s job as a sturgeon fisher.
Stump pulling was a spring chore in the early days of land clearing. The tough roots were impossible to burn so farmers pushed them into a fence formation and they would last many more years than an ordinary fence. The stump fence in this 1905 photograph was on the Peter R. Taylor farm in Pleasant […]
Ed Denner (far right), a St. Lawrence skiff builder, working on a skiff in Chippewa Bay. Circa 1900-1910. Chippewa Bay in the town of Hammond, NY.
Madeline Sisson (front) working in the Great Bend, NY Cafeteria in 1972.
“The finishing room at our early mill in Norfolk, included a number of women employees as well as several children.” Circa 1900. Norfolk, NY. Originally printed in the St. Regis News Volume 2, Number 9 of September 1974, a newsletter put out by the St. Regis Paper Company.
“The early logging camps of our company, just after the turn of the century, were located in our original 80,000 acre tract of timberland along the St. Regis River in northern New York.” Circa 1900. Jefferson County in NYS. Originally printed in the St. Regis News Volume 2, Number 9 of September 1974, a newsletter […]
