North Country At Work

Floating lumber camp at Chair Rock Bay. Circa 1910. Cranberry Lake, NY.

A view of stacked and stickered lumber drying in the Emporium Forestry Company lumber yard. Circa 1930s. Cranberry Lake, NY.

A slightly overhead view of the Emporium Forestry Company lumber yard in Cranberry Lake, under a light layer of snow. Circa 1930s. Cranberry Lake, NY.

Men walk through stacks of cut and milled lumber in the Emporium Forestry Company lumber yard. Circa 1930s. Cranberry Lake, NY.

Emporium Forestry Company Linn #4 equipped with half tracks and skis taking logs to the railroad. 1930. Brandy Brook area, Cranberry Lake, NY.

Emporium Forestry Company Barnhart loader lifting a locomotive out of Silver Pond. 1930. Cranberry Lake, NY.

DeCosse’s logging camp up at Brandy Brook in winter. A group of loggers moving logs onto a truck. Circa 1920. Cranberry Lake, NY.

Five men pose with a Barnhart Loader moving logs on the edge of Cranberry Lake at Chair Rock Bay. Circa 1910. Cranberry Lake, NY.

Written on photo: PULP WOOD AT NEWTON FALLS, N.Y. Two men pose with a two man crosscut saw. They stand in front of a large pile of pulpwood. Circa 1908. Newton Falls, NY. Real Photo Postcard by Henry M. Beach. Click here to read our story on Henry M. Beach and how his photography captured […]

A man stands in the doorway of the Chester Van Ornum Sawmill, at thead of the log ramp, which was a water-powered sawmill using a reciprocating (straight) saw. Stacked, drying lumber can be seen on the right, next to the mill. Circa 1890. Degrasse, NY.