North Country At Work

Inside the main machine shop of the Bagley & Sewall Company. Watertown, NY. Circa 1930s or 1940s. Photo submitted by Franz Helin, from the company brochure.

Draftsman Frans Alfred Helin (right) inspects machine at the Bagley & Sewall Company. Watertown, NY. Circa 1930s. Photo submitted by Franz Helin.  

Stephen Hyatt Perlham Pell leans on a cannon during rebuilding of Fort Ticonderoga. Ticonderoga, NY. Circa 1940s. Photo submitted by Fred Provoncha.

Cutting Firewood, in the area of Dundee or Aubrey Corners, Quebec. Early 1900s. No ID of the workers. Photo taken by Laura Currie, who was a seamstress in Huntingdon, P.Q. for most of her life. Donated by James Bullard.

Construction workers putting metal on steel girders for the new addition of Glens Falls Hospital, Glens Falls, NY, May 1, 1974. Carl Atiyeh Photograph Collection, Prints Box 3 #0010, The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library, Glens Falls, NY. Carl Atiyeh (1911-1997) grew up in Glens Falls, NY. He was the son of Nicholas and Zehia Atiyeh. […]

Two men working in a lab. Glens Falls, NY. April 1975. Carl Atiyeh Photograph Collection, Prints Box 3 #0005, The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library, Glens Falls, NY. Carl Atiyeh (1911-1997) grew up in Glens Falls, NY. He was the son of Nicholas and Zehia Atiyeh.  He graduated from Glens Falls High School and the New […]

Paving the street and laying down the electric trolley tracks on the east side of Glen Street. Glens Falls, NY. Circa 1890s. Courtesy of the Crandall Public Library Photograph Collection #1320, The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library.

Man operating a lathe at the National Defense Aviation School, Glens Falls, NY. Circa 1940-1943. Courtesy of the Crandall Public Library Photograph Collection #558, The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library.

Two construction workers from Hill and Company of Delmar, NY are seen working in the area which will house the new wing of Crandall Public Library. Glens Falls, NY. November 26, 1968. Courtesy of the Crandall Public Library Photograph Collection #198, The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library.

Ida Engeman and Rev. Robert Goerlitz use the new vico-matic Automatic Coin Operated Copy Machine at Crandall Public Library in Glens Falls, NY. 1964. Courtesy of the Crandall Public Library Photograph Collection #236, The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library.