North Country At Work

ALCOA Police Department portrait. 1950. Massena, NY.

A crew of Saint Lawrence Utilities Company workers stand in front of their truck, which holds tools, wires, and ladders. They worked on the power lines. Pictured left to right: Lindley, Lalone, Dishaw, George Kelly, Foreman, and Edwin L.Welgar (later superintendent of transportation in the St. Lawrence area). 1913. Potsdam. Photo by Arthur J. Floyd.

Workers from McDermott’s Milk Plant, posing on the loading dock, where farmers dropped off their five gallon milk cans – a worker in sitting on one on the left of the photo. McDermott’s later became the Sheffield Milk Plant in Canton. Circa 1920s. Canton.

Worker portrait of marble quarry workers (back row in their working clothes) and quarry management (front row in suits). Back row, workers left to right: Dave Bulger, Ed Martin, D.J. Whitney, Andy Johnson, Ed LePoint. Front row, owners: R. Ormiston, Morris Eckman, Lewis Eckman. (Note from Saint Lawrence County Historical Association: Ormiston was a Scottish […]

Two blacksmiths photographed in a studio, dressed in their working clothes and protective aprons, holding hammers and horseshoes. Circa 1890-1900. Canton, NY.

Blacksmiths of Canton, photographed in a studio dressed in their working clothes. The blacksmiths’ names are (top row from left to right): I. Cornell, L.V. Sherman, and Bailey, (bottom row left to right): E.V.I, Howard, Xury Lewis. Possibly an albumen print. Circa 1880s. Canton, NY.

Men pose for a photo during the construction of a crib retaining wall on the St. Regis River, which was built after a flood in 1905. Circa 1906. Hopkinton, NY.

Portrait of workers at Stella Mines. Caption with photograph reads: Willis Warren Wells is the tall, thin faced man in the back row, seventh from the right. This building is not the ore-processing mill. The open-ended building seen faintly in the upper left corner, however, may be the railroad repair shop and its elevated track. […]

Five railroad employees in and in front of the #1673 locomotive, operated by the Oswegatchie Railroad. Circa 1910. Gouverneur, NY.

Four workers are standing at the gas pumps of the Kerr Garage. Sign on the building advertises the sale of Dunlop Tires, and there’s a Pennzoil sign. Circa 1925. Fine, NY.