North Country At Work

G.B. Mangin Fruit Stand on Main Street, featuring bananas. Canton, NY. Circa 1900. (Unknown if man in photo is Mr. Mangin.)

R.E. Cleveland Cold Storage facility on West Street, with refrigerated wooden box cars from Merchants Dispatch Transportation Company. Circa 1910. Canton, NY.

A two horse treadmill powering a thresher on the Southworth Farm. The thresher separated the grain from the chaff (stalks/stems). Circa 1920. Canton, NY.

Unidentified workers operating steam drills in a Gouverneur marble quarry sometime in the first decades of the 20th century. Gouverneur, NY. Check out our story on how marble built Gouverneur.

Steamer in Clayton, operated by Thousand Islands Steamboat Company. Circa 1900-1910. Clayton, NY.

William Allen, owner of Allen’s Fine Jewelry and Gifts, installing the sign for his new location on State Street, Carthage, NY. From the Carthage Republican Tribune on July 21, 1993.

Lime quarry in Natural Bridge, NY. Date unknown.

Jay and Dan Blanchard bringing in loose hay using a team of oxen. Circa 1910s. Natural Bridge, NY.

Storage yard at steam sawmill. Circa 1910s. Natural Bridge, NY.

Construction of sawmill next to train tracks. Circa 1910s. Natural Bridge, NY.