North Country At Work

View of the Grand View House, with several children and adults in foreground. Photograph by Seneca Ray Stoddard. 1893. Lake Placid, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Main building of Blue Mountain House, auxiliary building to the right. Writing on photo reads: “BLUE MOUNTAIN HOUSE. BLUE MT. LAKE, N.Y. c By H.M. Beach”. Photograph by Henry M. Beach. Circa 1915. Blue Mountain Lake, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

The steamboat “Killoquah” docking at Kenwill’s Hotel on Raquette Lake. Photograph by Edward Bierstadt. Circa 1900. Raquette Lake, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Utowana House, a hotel in Blue Mountain Lake. Photograph by Edward Beirstadt. 1903. Blue Mountain Lake, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Six-horse stagecoach filled with passengers in front of Paul Smith’s Hotel; probably guests on porch. Photograph by Seneca Ray Stoddard. 1880. Paul Smiths, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Men on the porch of a boarding house on Main Street in Newbridge. A few years later, a second-floor porch was added. 1909. Newbridge, NY.

Advertising photograph for NYS Gas & Electric Coth men posing in chefs’ aprons at cooking ranges with advertisement board. Date and location unknown. Clinton County Historical Association. Brewer Collection.

Advertising photograph for NYS Gas & Electric Co, chefs at cooking range. Date and location unknown. Clinton County Historical Association. Brewer Collection.

Advertising photograph for NYS Gas & Electric Co, chef at cooking range. Date and location unknown. Clinton County Historical Association. Brewer Collection.

The Union Hotel, next to Clow & Klein Garage, on Margaret Street in downtown Plattsburgh. A man is posed outside of the hotel on the sidewalk. The Hotel was in business from 1920 until 1970. Circa 1920s.  Clinton County Historical Association. Brewer Collection.