North Country At Work

The interior of Harvey’s Pharmacy, located at 117 Park street. Pictured are Mr. Harvey and customers. Circa 1920. Tupper Lake, NY. Photo courtesy of the Goff-Nelson Memorial Library.

Two pharmacists or techs inside the pharmacy at Sunmount, when it was a Veterans Administration hospital. One of the men pictured is Benjamin Cohn. 1953. Tupper Lake, NY. Photo courtesy of the Goff-Nelson Memorial Library.

Kathleen Camelo is the Family Practitioner and the Director of the Student Health and Counseling Center at Plattsburgh State; she’s been in the position since 1994, and oversaw the merging of the Health and Counseling departments. Kathleen grew up in the North Country, and here she explains why she got into medicine.

From 1974 to 2004, Ursula Jones worked for the St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center. Located in Ogdensburg, the center serviced Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Lewis, St. Lawrence, & Jefferson Counties. She was a community worker who worked with people in the center from Clinton County. One of her jobs was to do discharge planning for people in […]

An H.H. Babcock Carriage Company ambulance, used as a World War I ambulance. 1920s. Watertown, NY. Courtesy of the Jefferson County Historical Society.

Two doctors examine wall of lung samples. This photo was taken inside a room in the Saranac Laboratory, the research lab of the Trudeau Sanitorium. Saranac Laboratory was founded by Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau, who came to the Adirondacks in 1873, seriously ill with tuberculosis. The man on the left, wearing glasses, is Dr. Leroy […]

Trudeau Sanatorium staff and summer interns. Seated, from left to right: Dr. Gordon Meade, Dr. Roger Mitchell, and a female doctor who was from New York City doing a short post-graduate course. The other man is unknown.The back row were five third-year medical students on a six-week externship program. From left: Lansing C. Hoskins, Bernice […]

The nursing staff of the Saranac Lake General Hospital. The General Hospital was built in 1913, when a week’s stay cost $10 per week. Use of the operating room was $5 per procedure. There was room for twelve patients at a time. Unlike much of the rest of the healthcare industry in Saranac Lake, General […]

Richard and nurse B. Rose at work inside a laboratory at the Trudeau Sanatorium. Date unknown. Saranac Lake, NY. Courtesy of the Saranac Lake Free Library.

Miss Mann (left) and Mrs. Welles, two nurses who worked at the Trudeau Sanatorium, talking at the Reid House, which was the Trudeau Nurses’ Home. 1937. Saranac Lake, NY. Courtesy of the Saranac Lake Free Library.