North Country At Work

Teddy Cook, a “bolter-upper” from Akwesasne. His job was to stick bolts in the hole for the metal beams on the Goldman Sachs tower. Jersey City, NJ. 2002. Courtesy of Darryl Lazore.

A 56 ton piece of Iron that was set by Darryl Lazore (top, in red) and his crew on the Goldman Sachs Tower. They had to use two cranes just to lift the iron. Jersey City, New Jersey. 2001. Courtesy of Darryl Lazore.

Ironworkers Darryl Lazore, Eugene Tarbell, Jerry Jackson, Freddy Mitchell, who were all part of a “raising gang”, a group that worked together to build the Goldman Sachs Tower. Winter 2001. Jersey City, New Jersey. Courtesy of Darryl Lazore.

Darryl Lazore setting a 28 ton column on the Goldman Sachs tower with his partners Stevie O’Donnell and Richie “Rich”. Jersey City, NJ. 2001. Courtesy of Darryl Lazore.

Darryl Lazore, of Akwesasne, perched on a beam of the Goldman Sachs tower, probably on the ninth floor. Lazore worked for Cornell Clinic Contractors for most of his career in ironworking. Jersey City, NJ. 2001. Courtesy of Darryl Lazore.

P & M Lumber Camp workers and children pose for a photo on a pile of logs. A young man of Native American descent, one of the loggers, sits in the front row, second from the left. 1900. The camp was located seven miles east of Old Forge, near Third Lake Creek in the Town […]

A lumber camp crew group photo, in Harrisville, NY. Note that there are many native people among the workers (possibly from Awkwesasne), as well as women and a young girl on the far right; most likely they helped run the camp as cooks and washerwomen. The workers are pictured with “double bitted” axes, which had […]

“Indian Lumberjacks” written on photo, picturing two young men (possibly Iroquois or Algonquin ancestry, likely from Awkwesasne) posing with axes near a felled tree. Circa 1900-1910. Harrisville, NY.

Morristown Fire Department portrait, taken in 1940. Pictured are first row: Jim Cree, JV Hughes, Forest Edwards, Clarence Carpenter, Ruben Record, Harold French, Thad Cater, and Barney Farrell. Second row: George Slater, Charlie Coffler, George Delair, Sylvester Livingston, George Adams. Row three: Floyd Reagen, Jimmy Moran, Art Bordine, Ralf Garrison, Howard Scott, Grant Whitmarsh, Ben […]

Caption written on photo: Noah Cook (left), a smithy, strikes while the iron is hot for four brothers in the service, as he copies a pattern held by his fellow tribesman (Mohawk?), Andrew Herne. Possibly at Alcoa. Circa 1940-1950. Massena, NY.