North Country At Work

Four workers in front of the Red Rock Cheese Factory. Trucks are lined up at the milk receiving station. Circa 1920s. East De Kalb, NY.

Three firemen with their fire trucks at the De Kalb Junction Volunteer Fire Department on Main Street (Route 11). Circa 1990. De Kalb Junction, NY.

Auldis LaPlatney, Ken Cring, and Buck Gerow loading logs (using a Bay City cable winch powered by a McCormick Deering motor) onto a truck bed. Winter of 1939. Harrisville, NY. Check out our story on Ross Young, a logger from Harrisville. 

Two men (one is Verne Wicks, who owned a lumber operation) loading logs onto a Ford truck bed. Circa early 1950s. Harrisville, NY. Check out our story about Ross Young, a logger from Harrisville. 

Moving stone using a small dump truck and SIMCO bobcat in the quarries of the Cabot Wollastonite White Pigments Division plant, owned by the Cabot Carbon Company. Willsboro, New York. Circa 1940s. Photographer is Bernie A. Degnan, Glens Falls.

Firefighters on early fire engine, which was an International truck. At the Fourth Ward Hose House, which was built in 1875. Ogdensburg, NY. Circa 1920.

An early fire engine and firemen. Ogdensburg, NY. Circa 1920. Norris Jenkins collection.

Supplies being unloaded from trucks at outside loading docks of the H.I. Proctor Manufacturing Company warehouse. Ogdensburg, NY. Circa 1920.

Long view of  the entire H.I. Proctor Manufacturing Company, which did lumber and mill work, and sold building and masonry supplies. Ogdensburg, NY. Circa 1920.

Unidentified man driving International Harvester truck of H.I. Proctor Manufacturing Company, which did lumber and mill work, and sold building and masonry supplies. Circa 1920. Ogdensburg, NY.