North Country At Work

Downtown Inlet. 1925. Inlet, NY. Photo courtesy of the Hamilton County Historian’s Office.

Downtown Inlet, on Main Street. Pharmacy (left), Mary’s Gift Shop, and Harry Hall’s Groceries. Note the dairy barn on the far right. Circa 1940. Inlet, NY. Photo courtesy of the Hamilton County Historian’s Office.

Downtown Inlet. 1924. Inlet, NY. Photo courtesy of the Hamilton County Historian’s Office.

The front of Palmatier’s General Store on Main Street. The driver is Durkin. Circa 1890-1900. Main Street, Indian Lake. Photo courtesy of the Hamilton County Historian’s Office.

Note gas pump on the far left. Circa 1930s or 1940s. Indian Lake, NY. Photo courtesy of the Hamilton County Historian’s Office.

Len Anibal in front of a tackle & bait store he ran. Circa 1950s. The hamlet of Piseco in the town of Arietta, NY. Photo courtesy of the Hamilton County Historian’s Office.

Interior of Cheeseman’s Dry Goods Store with a man behind the counter. Photograph by William F. Kollecker. 1915. Lake Placid, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Dentist examines teeth in Prospect House. (Note the foot powered dentist’s drill to right of dentist.) Woman sits reading newspaper. 1890. Blue Mountain Lake, NY.

Silas Ives gives a shave in the Altamont Hotel Barber Shop. 1904. Tupper Lake, NY.

First barber shop in Tupper Lake. Note oil lamps. Circa 1880. Tupper Lake, NY.