North Country At Work

Four men, two on top of the Frink snowplow and two riding the wings, plow through deep snow. Clayton, NY. Circa 1930 -1940. From the Thousand Island Museum.

Loading a burlap-wrapped Christmas tree onto a flatbed car at the depot in Thendara. The tree, donated by the Adirondack League Club, was the first Christmas tree to be set up in Times Square in New York City. Men in picture, left to right: Peter Zimmer, Merle White, Lewis L. Grant and James Scanlon. Circa […]

Team of horses pulls a sled carrying a burlap wrapped Christmas tree given by the Adirondack League Club to be set up in Times Square in New York City. It was to be taken from Thendara to New York City by train. People behind the sleigh from left to right: Lewis L. Grant, James Scanlon, […]

Sugar Camp in North Creek. Man (right) holds sap pails with basic yoke. Boy stands under eaves, dog on wood stack. 1907. North Creek, NY. Donated by William Waddell, courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Man pours sap through a funnel into a metal pipe that transports it directly to gathering tubs or the evaporator. Operations of the Horseshoe Forestry Company. Photograph by George W. Baldwin. 1901. Piercefield, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Men are emptying sap from the gathering tank on a bobsled into vats; sap is then piped into the sugarhouse and directly into the evaporators. Operations of the Horseshoe Forestry Company. Photograph by George W. Baldwin. 1901. Piercefield, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Man standing on a horse-drawn sled carrying two rectangular sap gathering tanks. Second man standing further ahead. Operations of the Horseshoe Forestry Company. Photograph by George W. Baldwin. 1901. Piercefield, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

A Holt Caterpillar tractor hauls a load of logs near High Rock Road. 1933-1934. Speculator, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Man from the Webb family pulls sled of logs with a Lombard Steam Log Hauler next to Mill Pond on the way to Partlow, an area in Long Lake. Written on the tractor, “ T. C. Williams Tractor number 4”. Lombard log haulers were the first successful continuous track vehicles. Photograph by James Watson Webb. […]

Seven sleds loaded with large white pine logs being pulled by horses through the snow. Mountains in the background. Written on photo: “Hauling Pine in the Adirondacks.” Photograph by Henry M. Beach. Circa 1910. Adirondack region of NYS. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.