Written on photo: Frank Colby and Leslie Lawrence drawing lumber cut and sawed at Euba Mills enroute to Wadhams Mills – loads of hemlock planks were used to plank the Wadhams Mills Dam. Note the poles atop of the loads – they were used to tension the chains or ropes holding the load together. Also, […]
A two-horse treadmill powering a buzz saw, being used to cut firewood by a crew of five men, in late fall or winter. Brick structure (most likely a school or public building) in background. Written on the treadmill is: A. W. Gray’s Sons Horsepower, Patented and Manufactured By A. W. Gray’s Sons, Middletown Springs, Vermont. […]
Loggers and skid horses posing for a shot at the head of the log skidway where logs would beloaded onto bobsleds. Pictured from left: Smith Veeley, Leo Bradley, Charlie Tyrell, Smith Wilson, Jud Delorm. Will Bradley on far right with saw. 1903. Essex County.
Caption on photo: “Largest load of pulp to come down the mountain,” taken in front of Bert Lyon’s barber shop. Man on top of the load is Nathan Taylor. Circa 1900-1910. Keene, NY. Donated by Julia Warner Lesser. Note: this entire load is being drawn by just a two-horse team.
Lunchbreak in the woods for working loggers at Chapel Pond. Horse in the background is getting lunch, too, from a feeding bag tied around his neck. 1905. Chapel Pond in Keene, NY. Names from left to right, sitting on ground: Lee Garfield, Frank Delorme, child Clifford Delorme, Dwight Warren, Bogey Sprague, Henry Delorme, Jed Delorme. […]
Essex County wool pool (or sale) at the Floral Hall of the Essex County fairgrounds in Westport, NY. 1918-1919 on picture.
Caption written below photo: Trucks ( wagons) of the International Paper Company loaded with paper for a metropolitan daily. The paper in this photograph represents about half the amount delivered to this newspaper each day. The paper is made from wood pulp. Originally printed in History of the lumber industry in the state of New […]
Load of cut logs on bobsled, harvested by the Leo Spellman Company, traveling to Gates sawmill. “Black Pine” written on photograph. January 23, 1901. Essex County.
Six-horse team pulling a road grader, cleaning ditches. Another two-horse team pulls a drag harrow. 1924. Simonds Hill on Lincoln Pond Road in Elizabethtown, NY.
Team of horses pulling a wagon with W. Gates and Mattie Spellman on it. They were on Lincoln Pond Road in Elizabethtown. 1920. Elizabethtown, NY
