Harvesting hay by hand. Hay cocks in right foreground. Workers use hayforks to pull hay into cocks and then load onto wagon with pitchforks. Photo by Seneca Ray Stoddard. Circa 1885. Ausable Chasm, NY.
Two men hauling cut stone with a team of horses. Stone was for use in the construction of Big Moose Chapel. Small shed and automobile can be seen in background. 1929. Town of Webb, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.
A white horse pulling a loaded ore car deep within a graphite mine. Circa 1910. Hague, NY.
Miners at the Tupper Lake quarry, working up the face of a hill to load stone. Horse and cart on left. On right a team of men operate a steam drill to loosen more ore. Circa 1905. Tupper Lake, NY. Photographer is Frank J. McCormick.
The garnet mines at Oven Mountain, operated by Barton Mines. Horses and carts wait to be filled with ore. Miners on upper tier are shoveling out material. Circa 1910. North River, NY.
Miners loading burlap bags of crushed rock, possibly garnet, into a cart pulled by a team of horses at Barton’s Mines. Circa 1900. North River, NY. Photo donated by John Dalaba Hitchcock to the Adirondack Experience: the Museum on Blue Mountain Lake.
Shot of the steam powered stone separator at Barton’s Old Mines. The ore was separated into various coarseness grades and dropped into the appropriate bin. In the foreground, a horse-drawn cart full of ore waits to have ore unloaded into the elevator that feeds the separator. Circa 1900. North River, NY.
Using horse drawn ore carts, men mine garnets in winter at Barton Mines. Workers, bundled up in winter clothing, shovel garnet ore into a two-wheeled cart pulled by a horse. Two other horses wait with a stone boat to pull more loads. Circa 1910. Barton Mines, North River, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.
Men posing with their horsedrawn wagons and automobiles outside Texaco Station. Circa 1918. Somewhere in Clinton County. Clinton County Historical Association. Brewer Collection.
Newcomb shoes a horse’s front foot, another man stands behind the horse. The horse is restrained in a frame built into the side of the building. Note that the hose also has its rear left leg raised, possibly mid-kick. Circa 1900. Long Lake, NY. Courtesy of the Town of Long Lake Archives.
