Ore being drawn from the mine to the railroad. Driving the first team of horses is Claude Hance. Story attached to photo at the SLCHA Archives: Robert McFerran brought the horses a chocolate each morning on the first trip down and the horses would stop and refuse to go past the store until they had […]
Picture taken in front of hoist house and engine room of the Green Hill Mine. Ten workers in their work clothes pose in front of the doors. Pegamatite was mined there. Note electric line insulators showing above roof. Circa 1920s. De Kalb, NY.
Men standing outside the Green Hill Mine. Left to right are: Henry Bradley (superintendent), John Tait (carpenter), Lester Ware (engineer), Dan Reed (fireman). Pegamatite was mined at this location. Circa 1920s. De Kalb, NY.
Benson Mines railyard: railroad tracks, factory buildings, water tower and a gondola railroad car. Circa 1891. Benson Mines, NY.
A steam drill on track, winch (bottom left), and a crane boom for lifting rocks in the Canton Marble Quarries. Two groups of workers are visible in center foreground. Circa 1890s. Canton, NY. Photo by Dwight Seog.
Prospecting for serpentine marble on the Nickerson Farm using a steam drill. Worker is hand-cranking hoist to pick up rocks. Four other workers maneuver the rig in the small exploration pit. Circa 1890s. Canton, NY.
Laurence Eldridge Monument Works and employees stand among marble monuments. The business shared the building with E.E. Stevens Harness Shop. Posters on the exterior of the building are of professional boxer John L. Sullivan. 1890-1900. Court Street in Canton, NY.
Metal scraps piled in a vacant lot. Scrap metal was collected and recycled or sold for the war effort during WWII. Note man in foreground, about one third the height of this pile. Circa 1940s. Carthage, NY. Photo scanned from the Republican Tribune, a Carthage newspaper.
A Real Photo Postcard produced by Henry M. Beach, titled: STEAM SHOVEL LOADING ORE – BENSON MINES, N.Y. No 23. Pictured is a steam powered shovel and switch engine loading ore onto five ore cars. One man stands on an ore car, six men work on laying new railroad tracks on the bottom right. Circa […]
Six mechanics working on trucks in the garage of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation. Pictured from left: Shorty Bomyea (in front of tire), Calvin Smith (on fender) Stan Ogradnic, and Jack Winch (others unidentified). Circa 1950. Benson Mines, NY.
