Roberta and Malcolm McGregor gathering sap in milk cans on the McGregor farm. Pictured are: a Studebaker automobile and a horse drawn wagon filled with station cans used to collect sap from individual buckets. Steam is rising in the background from the sugaring arch. March 1947. Hammond, NY. Photo donated by Jennifer McGregor.
Skiers being transported to the Maple Ridge slope via Town of Webb snowplows. Late 1930s-early 1940s. Photo courtesy of the Goodsell Museum. Check out our story about Webb’s transformation from logging town to tourist destination.
A steam train hauling ore. In the background are workhorses and cows and a steam shovel. Photo by Henry M. Beach. 1910. Hamilton County. Photo courtesy of the Adirondack Experience: the Museum on Blue Mountain Lake. For more on Henry M. Beach’s life and photography, check out our North Country at Work story on him.
Turkey Day in 1905. Farmers are waiting in line with their turkeys towards the railroad station, where turkeys were appraised and bought. A car load of knocked down boxes would arrive to be distributed to the different buyers. These boxes were large enough to hold eighteen medium-sized turkeys in the first two tiers and four […]
Horse and buggy outside Horace N. Clark’s funeral home. Circa 1900-1910. Potsdam, NY.
Students clearing what would later become Snell Field. Tractor was loaned by a nearby farmer and driven by Stub Baker, class of 1927. 1923. Potsdam, NY.
Sam Goldberg and Bill Cornell with the Cornell & Son ice delivery wagon on Willow St. Cornell holds a block of ice with ice tongs. Circa 1920. Potsdam, NY.
Workers transport Benson’s Leghorn Chickens in wooden crates aboard a wagon. Fred C. Benson was the proprietor of Central Meat and Grocery Market at 33 Market Street. Potsdam’s depot is to the right of the wagon. Circa 1920. Potsdam, NY.
Ed LaVine of Potsdam drove this rig that carried “the largest load of pulp wood ever drawn out of the woods by a single team of horses.” The 12-cord load of 4-foot logs was 10 feet wide, 10 feet high, and 18 feet long. The load was hauled 10 miles to the Racquette River, where […]
Workmen take a break while installing a water main in front of the Liberty Knowles house on the east side of Market Street, across from the head of Depot Street. Note the pieces of sandstone sidewalk piled around the site. Circa 1870. Potsdam, NY.
