North Country At Work

Shipyard employees portrait, mixture of management and workers. The space behind them is where ships were built and repaired. Ogdensburg, NY. Circa 1910.

Skillings, Whitneys and Barnes Lumber Company, a steam planing mill. Standing from left are Joseph Montroy, Mr. Seguin, Buck Doe, Archie Montpelier (white shirt). Front row- 2nd over Mr. Montroy? 4th over front Mr. Sergeant, 5th over Earnest Buchard, 6th over Nelson Montroy, 7th over Oscar Gilbert, Labeled 7 is Buck Gokey; front row in […]

Members of the 40th Separate Company in 1897. The company was sent to fight in the Spanish American War in the following year, 1898. Ogdensburg, NY.

Railroad workers standing in front of a wooden passenger car labeled Buffalo, a division of New York Central. Car #146. The men pictured from left to right are: James Sheldon, John Boske, J.J. Sullivan, E.E. Cope, J.T. Eagan, J.J. McEaston, and John Keenan.  Ogdensburg, NY. Photo courtesy of the Ogdensburg Public Library. Ogdensburg, NY. Circa […]

Workers at the International Paper Company, in Harrisville, NY, 1905.

Workers at the Beach and Dodge tannery. Harrisville, NY. Circa 1880.

Workers at an unknown tannery in Harrisville. Many children pictured are laborers. Harrisville, NY. Circa 1890.

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.

Adirondack and St. Lawrence engine #2 and coach passenger car. From right to left: Bill Tull (engineer), McCullum (Freeman), Rarick (Conductor), Slimell (Brakeman), taken in 1906 near 4 mile point on De Kalb to Hermon route. (Possibly a cowcatcher on front of engine, designed to remove cows and other obstructions from tracks.) Near Hermon, NY.