North Country At Work

Borden’s milk plant featuring two large ice houses (the two large buildings to the right) to store ice to keep milk cold. Circa 1900-1910. De Kalb Junction, NY.

Diners sitting at long board tables outside the The Basket Shop, a dance hall and eatery owned by I.M.Priest, which sold boats, tackle, souvenirs, ice cream, soda, and soft drinks, according to signs on the building’s exterior. Late 1920s. Harrisville, NY.

Exterior shot of the Pleasant View Hotel, with employees standing on the porch. Food stuffs for the hotel can be seen on the porch. 1907. Harrisville, NY.

Carrie Ring Mannigan feeding turkeys, ducks and chickens at the Number One Logging Camp. She was the logging camp cook. Circa 1900-1910. Harrisville, NY.

The dining room of the McKeever Logging Camp, empty except for the cooks, Henry and Clara Stevens (on the left), who were from Pitcairn. The younger man on the right is Hershell Iruin, and he was the “choreboy.” Caption written on photo reads: WINTER OF 1911 to 1912 – MCKEEVER LOGGING CAMP – WAITING FOR […]

The dining room of the McKeever Logging Camp, filled with loggers during a meal. Caption on photo reads: WINTER OF 1911 to 1912 – MCKEEVER LOGGING CAMP – HARD WORKING LUMBERJACKS AND HEARTY EATERS HENRY AND CLARA STEVENS, COOKS FROM PITCAIRN – HERSHELL IRUIN, CHORE BOY. Winter of 1911 to 1912. Harrisville, NY.

Unidentified man and woman  outside the Grimm Cheese Factory in Harrisville. On right is a winch which was  used to lift fifty gallon milk cans up.  Round pressing boards, used for pressing wheels of cheese, are scattered around the yard. Cheesecloth was hung out to dry (doorway of building). Circa 1890-1900. Harrisville, NY.

Milk plant (name unknown) next to the railroad tracks and river. Owned by Nestles prior to WWI; during the war the plant made condensed milk for the war effort. The plant employed 150 people and Ernest Rogers was the superintendent. The plant later sold to the Dairyman’s League (circa 1930), and then sold again in […]

Interior of the Lodge Restaurant in the summer of 1949. Pickled eggs and Forget-Me-Not potato chips behind the bar. Morristown, NY. Photo taken by Louis Murray.

(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.