North Country At Work

Stanley Cornell’s Garage on Riverside Drive. Black and white tires being sold out front; white tires were only sold until 1920. Circa 1910-1915. Canton, NY.

Main Street Canton Hardware store interior, featuring goods including a clothes washer, stoves, baskets, and buckets. Pictured is proprietor J. Fred Hammond. Circa 1910. Canton, NY.

Interior of the Baxter Foundry, featuring two blacksmiths and lots of tools. Wooden molds for casting are hung on the back wall; the wooden molds were pressed into sand, removed, and metal poured into the imprint. Can see part of the process in action with the man on the right. Circa 1890. Canton, NY.

Exterior of a blacksmith shop in Pope Mills. Men and children in front of the building with horses and a wagon. Circa 1880s. Pope Mills in the town of Macomb, NY

Sherwin Lumber Mill employees and loggers posing for a photo in front of the mill. Also pictured are floating logs and the water inlet screens for the mill on the water. Many of the men hold poles for herding the logs. 1890. Canton.

Ice chunks harvested from the Grasse River are moved along a wooden chute and lifted using ropes into an ice house. Circa 1900. Canton.

Two blacksmiths photographed in a studio, dressed in their working clothes and protective aprons, holding hammers and horseshoes. Circa 1890-1900. Canton, NY.

Blacksmiths of Canton, photographed in a studio dressed in their working clothes. The blacksmiths’ names are (top row from left to right): I. Cornell, L.V. Sherman, and Bailey, (bottom row left to right): E.V.I, Howard, Xury Lewis. Possibly an albumen print. Circa 1880s. Canton, NY.

Three men sit inside a barbershop. Men left to right are Gilbert Green, George Tiernan (barber), and Leo Mooney. In Lawrenceville, a hamlet of Lawrence. Circa 1890-1900. Lawrenceville, NY.

Farrier in the process of shoeing a horse in front of a barn. One man holds the halter of the horse, and another two men watch. Circa 1900. Hammond, NY.