“Indian Lumberjacks” written on photo, picturing two young men (possibly Iroquois or Algonquin ancestry, likely from Awkwesasne) posing with axes near a felled tree. Circa 1900-1910. Harrisville, NY.
Teamster and team of horses drawing lumber from the Hardwood Mill near Camp Hungry in the woods. Circa 1890-1910. Town of Diana, NY.
Two men driving a load of logs; the driver is Leslie Lawrence and the rider is David Stringham. Logs were destined for Hasellion Lumber Company in Wilmington, NY. Caption says: Driver, Leslie Lawrence; Rider, David Stringham. Picture taken at top of Nigger Hill in Elizabethtown. Logs from Peter Liberty job. Donated by Leslie Lawrence. February […]
Lumberjack releasing the binding pole on a load of logs, late winter. The opposite of “tensioning,” “unbinding” released the logs for floating downstream. From the pictured location (precise location unknown), logs were floated to Willsboro and Waddhams. Circa 1900-1910. Essex County. Donated by H.M. MacDougal.
Lumber yard outside of Tupper Lake. C: Stacks of lumber on either side of railroad tracks in a lumber yard on the Raquette Pond on Raquette River, near Tupper Lake. The pond is full of logs, and the sawmill is in the background on the left. Photo caption says: Raquette Pond, on Raquette River. Near […]
Workers are measuring the diameter of logs and marking the logs with owner’s log mark, using a metal hammer to press the mark into the logs. This was done to identify logs once they had been sent down river and were retrieved by a mill or factory. Each logging company had their own individual mark, […]
Pulp logs falling from flume into the Ausable River. Circa 1890-1900. Essex County. Photographer was F.A. Van Sant. Originally in History of the lumber industry in the state of New York, by William H. Fox Forest, Fish & Game Commission report, 1900.
Written on photo: Frank Colby and Leslie Lawrence drawing lumber cut and sawed at Euba Mills enroute to Wadhams Mills – loads of hemlock planks were used to plank the Wadhams Mills Dam. Note the poles atop of the loads – they were used to tension the chains or ropes holding the load together. Also, […]
A two-horse treadmill powering a buzz saw, being used to cut firewood by a crew of five men, in late fall or winter. Brick structure (most likely a school or public building) in background. Written on the treadmill is: A. W. Gray’s Sons Horsepower, Patented and Manufactured By A. W. Gray’s Sons, Middletown Springs, Vermont. […]
Original caption says: Frank Peterson’s drive on the Boquet River. Loggers holding pikes posing with logs during the spring river drive. 1903. Essex County.
