Jane Thompson and Bryan Thompson hold and are surrounded by a flock of turkeys her family was raising for Heuvelton’s turkey markets. Circa late 1950s. Heuvelton, NY. Photo courtesy of Bryan Thompson. Check out our story on Heuvelton’s turkey days.
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 […]
The Rockwood family (left to right): June, Alice, Rose, and Allen, by an automobile in front of their farmhouse. Photo courtesy of John Stano. Early 1930s. Pillar Point, NY. Check out our story on the Rockwood family farm.
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.
General field work at the Clarkson Estate, where Snell Athletic Field is today. Fall 1924. 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.
Before the invention of modern refrigeration, ice was stored in warehouses along the Raquette River for use through the year. This crew from Cornell & Son watched for the weather conditions to be just right, toward the end of January, when the ice would snap and crack with a loud boom. Then, working night and […]
Pictured is farrier Bill Balling on the job, trimming the hooves of a draft horse in Waddington. Bill Balling, whose home is in Hermon, worked as a farrier all over Saint Lawrence County , trimming and shoeing the hooves of horses, from riding horses to draft horses to hobby horses. Photo taken circa the mid-1990s. […]
Spencer Morgan and child Kellogg Morgan pose with a team of horses seeding ground with a hoe drill. Circa 1910. Hermon, NY.
Feeding corn into an ensilage cutter for silage using a wood powered steam engine. The piles of wood to feed the engine are in the foreground and milk cans of water for the engine are on the left. Circa 1900-1910. Hermon, NY.
