North Country At Work

Horse drawn bobsled transporting logs in winter in front of Roberts & Nichols dry goods store. Looking west from River street. Circa 1890-1900. Elizabethtown, NY. Donated by H.M. MacDougal.

Original caption on photo reads: July 27, 1901. Frank Colby of Wadhams Mills, NY with Beede’s team Dan & Mag. This load was drawn Wadhams to Westport 4 miles. 6 thousand 50 feet [referring to how many feet of board there are in this load] 9 feet wide on top. Given by Leslie Lawrence. Photo […]

Twelve of Frank Peterson’s log drivers on the Boquet River. Drivers’ names from left : Frank Peterson, unidentified, Philip Ezro, Lewis Lashway, Fred Longware, Nelson Fleury, John Rumney, Peter Fleury, Tuffield Fleury, unidentified, Albert Pierce, George Lashway. Circa 1900-1908. Essex County, NY.

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

The International Paper Company in Harrisville, NY. Circa 1900.

Harrisville Lumber Company, circa 1891. Harrisville, NY.

Tunnel camps, housing for loggers, in use up to about 1920. Harrisville, NY. Circa 1900.

Sugar works of Warren Humes, 3/4 mile from Forest Home. Steam from boiling of maple sap. Taken March 28, 1897, by Fred E. Whipple, Warren’s son-in-law. Harrisville, NY. Related story, here.

Lyman Humes and Jesse Wicks with load of logs being drawn out of Lyman’s sugar bush. Harrisville, NY. Circa 1930.

Merton Mantle and Myron Humes unloading the sap tub, which is on a sledge. The trough at bottom right was used to run sap from the tub to the boiling pan (or holding container) so the tub could be taken back out to the sugar bush for another load of sap. This photo was taken […]