Reaper Glenn Aldrich driving his grain binder, which he traveled from farm to farm with. Here he is pictured at the Langdon Farm. Horse is equipped with fly net. Circa 1920s. Langdon’s Corners in Canton, NY.
Farmstead, picturing steam engine pulled by team of horses and threshing crew sitting on wooden thresher. Circa 1890s. Canton, NY.
A steam drill on track, winch (bottom left), and a crane boom for lifting rocks in the Canton Marble Quarries. Two groups of workers are visible in center foreground. Circa 1890s. Canton, NY. Photo by Dwight Seog.
Road construction in Canton, from Evergreen Corners to Pierrepont. Using both horses and a mechanical, cable-driven back hoe. Circa 1920s. Canton, NY.
Workers digging by hand and with a mechanical, cable-driven back hoe to build the first state road from Canton to Ogdensburg, which eventually become State Route 68. Circa 1920s. Canton, NY.
Prospecting for serpentine marble on the Nickerson Farm using a steam drill. Worker is hand-cranking hoist to pick up rocks. Four other workers maneuver the rig in the small exploration pit. Circa 1890s. Canton, NY.
Interior of the Grasse Paper Company Mill. Workers stand next to paper making machinery. Circa 1910-1920. Pyrites, NY. Check out our story on the boom (and bust) of Pyrites here.
Over the old log chute at the Grasse Paper Company Mill steam engine powered log booms are positioned to lift materials for the wall into place. The “chute” may have been an old power tube. Circa 1905. Pyrites, NY.
Canton’s first piece of firefighting equipment, a hand pumper, was named the St. Lawrence. Note the metal buckets hanging at the center of the pumper. It’s pictured here on Main Street, surrounded by a crowd of men. It was purchased after a devastating fire in 1869. Circa early 1870s. Canton, NY.
Pictured is William Duffy, station agent, posing inside the Lisbon Train Depot. He stands to the left of the ticket window. Note the chains for operating semaphore signals and telegraph key to the left of the agent. Station was a part of the Rutland Railroad. May 1913. Lisbon, NY.
