(Right to left) Warren Humes, Mrs. Coulon, Hazel B. Worden, Ward Saunders, Wendell Humes, Dan Cleveland. Taken at Warren Humes’ sugarbush. To the far right is the big kettle to boil syrup in, Warren Humes testing temperature. Hired help and sons pictured as well. Harrisville, NY. Circa 1910.
Sugar bush camp. From left to right, Ernest Chadwick, Kendrick Shaw, Eliazar Shaw, Pearl Shaw and child, Myron Humes, and Lyman Humes. After-hours recreation, a friendly card game. Harrisville, NY. Circa 1911. Related story, here.
Sugaring camp of Edgar Mantle, neighbor of Warren Humes; they went back and forth as neighbors do. Harrisville, NY. Circa 1912.
Hiram and Eugene Cole’s sugar house, with wood supply, near the Oswegatchie River in the Town of Diana, NY. Note sled for skidding out sap with horses. Circa 1900.
Drying wooden sap buckets at Warren Humes’ sugar bush. Harrisville, NY. Circa 1910. Related story, here.
Forest Home sugar bush operation. Two sap-gathering wagons towed by teams of horses. Harrisville, NY. Circa 1910.
Myron Humes behind sled gathering sap for Forest Home sugar bush operation. Harrisville, NY. Circa 1910.
