North Country At Work

Ore separator at Lyon Mountain. Circa 1910. Donated by the Sheldon Family. Lyon Mountain, NY. [Editor’s note: we assume this was an iron ore operation, but we do not know it for a fact.]

Film star Ethel Clayton shooting silent film serial, The Perils of Pauline. Circa 1912. Donated by the Sheldon Family. Saranac Lake, NY.

Carlyle Blackwell, a silent film star, shooting silent film serial, The Perils of Pauline. Circa 1912. Donated by the Sheldon Family. Saranac Lake, NY.

January 1925 fire in downtown. Saranac Lake, NY.

Lumberjacks posing in front of a horsedrawn ice machine. Circa 1930. Donated by the Sheldon family. Other photos from the family picture activities in Clinton and Franklin counties. This photo was taken at an unknown Adirondack location. Related story on ice harvesting, here.

Cutting ice in Ampersand Bay in Saranac Lake. Note horse with blanket cover. Circa 1912. Donated by the Sheldon Family. Saranac Lake, NY. Related story on ice harvesting, here.

Norma Talmadge and Mark McDermott (man with whiskers) in last scene of “New Moon.” Filmed at Saranac Lake. Winter 1919. Donated by Lila Friel. Saranac Lake, NY.

NYS Conservation officer Carl Prue loading pack basket onto ski plane on Schroon Lake. Unidentified pilot. Circa 1950. Photo donated by Jack Drury, from Carl Prue’s album. Schroon Lake, NY.

Game protectors Black Dwinal and Toby Tyler with Forest Rangers Jeb Garfield and Alex Stowell at the Northwoods Club (formerly known as The Adirondack Preserve Association for the Encouragement of Social Pastimes and the Preservation of Game Forests). The elk was 550 pounds with an 11 point rack. Elk went extinct in the Adirondacks in […]

The Underwood House was a guest hotel which burned on New Year’s Day 1933. Dexter, NY.