North Country At Work

Setting up a circus tent, circa 1870s. Offices of the Press Republican newspaper visible in back ground. Ogdensburg, NY.

Snow removal with horses and wagons in downtown Ogdensburg, NY. Looking east on Ford Street.  Circa 1890.

Billie Mashaw and Colburn Ruport (driver) in a horse drawn wagon, possibly for deliveries. Ogdensburg, NY. Circa 1930.

Loading ice blocks on a horse-drawn wagon. During Carthage, NY ice harvest. 1947. Carthage Ice Harvest Collection donated by Eleanor Query, whose father, Francis George Query, is pictured in many of the photos. Related story, here.

Jayville (early iron ore mining area above Kalurah) rail station with early high wheeler car. Town of Pitcairn, NY. Circa 1900.

Workers at the Jerden Falls tannery, taken the day it closed in 1919. Town of Diana, NY.

Workers at Jerden/Jordan Falls. Behind them are the house-shaped stacks of hemlock bark, which were used to tan hides at this tannery operation. Taken in 1884 by Henry M. Beach. Town of Diana, NY. For more on Henry M. Beach’s life and photography, check out our North Country at Work story on him.

Haying at Forest Home. Burton Humes with rake, Merton Mantle on load, Kendrick Shaw with pitchfork, Harlan Whipple with hand on horse, Lyman Humes in front of horse. Haying was done by hand. Piles of hay are called “haycocks.” Harrisville, NY. Circa 1920. Related story, here.

Lyman Humes and Jesse Wicks with load of logs being drawn out of Lyman’s sugar bush. Harrisville, NY. Circa 1930.

Empty sap buckets at Art Mantle’s sugar bush in Harrisville. Buckets in stack are already washed and drying, those on the ground haven’t been washed yet. Clean buckets are being prepared for storage until the next year’s sugaring season. Circa 1910. Harrisville, NY.