Camp of Adirondack log drivers holding logging tools, with tents and kitchen wagon in the background. Caption under photo reads: Camp of Adirondack River Drivers. Traveling kitchen, or cook-shanty in background. Circa 1890-1900. In the Adirondacks. F.A. Van Sant was the photographer. Originally in History of the lumber industry in the state of New York, […]
Furniture workshop in Wadhams Mills, NY. C: Bert or Henry Swan working in the Henry Swan furniture shop in Wadhams Mills, NY. Circa 1880-1900. Donated by Joseph Kozma.
William Henry Palmer, a blacksmith, working on a horseshoe in his shop. His forge is in the background, and his tools are scattered around the shop. Circa 1890-1910. Elizabethtown, NY. Donated by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wrisley.
Walter A. Wood foundry and blacksmithing shop, located next to the Jay covered bridge. Behind the (unidentified) man are a bobsled being repaired, a spare buggy wheel, and other wooden parts. 1890-1900, Jay, NY. Donated by Bill Johnson.
The Cutting brothers shearing sheep in Lewis, NY. Date unknown, sometime between 1890 and 1920.
Logging drivers, pikes in hand, at the big boom (a barrier set up to stop logs on a river) in Glens Falls on the Hudson River. Circa 1890s. Glens Falls, NY.
Seneca Ray Stoddard photo of crew of lumbermen felling and limbing spruce trees with double-bitted axes in winter, circa 1880-1890. Essex County in NYS.
Aerial view of logging road leading to the “skid head,” where logs were loaded onto bobsleds to be transported out of the woods. This photograph captures the whole process of loading logs. Men rolled logs down onto bobsleds attached to horses; teamsters waited their turn to load. Pictured are a hauling sledge, logs and lumber, […]
Men posing “after a day’s work measuring timber” in 1900. Circa 1890-1900. Raquette Lake, NY. Courtesy of Professor A. S. Bickmore. Donated by Fulton Town Historian Leon C. Baldwin.
Drive of pulp wood logs on a branch of the Boquet River. Management posing with the “peaveys,” hook tools with sharp pointed end used to roll logs. Circa 1890- 1900. Essex County in NY. H.M MacDougal was donor.
