Type of Work: Manufacturing, Mills, and Factories

Saint Lawrence Mill wagon filled with bags in Canton

Saint Lawrence Mill wagon filled with bags in Canton

A Saint Lawrence Mill wagon filled with bags of feed or flour, drawn by one horse, in front of a photo studio (note sign above wagon that says Photograph). The Saint Lawrence Mill was owned by Horace Dickinson Moody, brother in law to Silas Wright. Circa 1860s. Canton, NY. Photo by H.D.Moody.

Workers from McDermott’s Milk Plant in Canton

Workers from McDermott’s Milk Plant in Canton

Workers from McDermott’s Milk Plant, posing on the loading dock, where farmers dropped off their five gallon milk cans – a worker in sitting on one on the left of the photo. McDermott’s later became the Sheffield Milk Plant in Canton. Circa 1920s. Canton.

Inside the Ruby Corners Cheese Factory in Macomb

Inside the Ruby Corners Cheese Factory in Macomb

Charles Lenox and his wife Phoebe Smith-Lenox inside the Ruby Corners Cheese Factory. They stand behind a large tank filled with  blocks of cheese curd. Circa 1910. Ruby Corners in the town of Macomb, NY.

View of Day Mill area in Hopkinton

View of Day Mill area in Hopkinton

View of the Day Mill area from the north side of the St. Regis River, showing the home of Harvey Day. 1896. Hopkinton, NY. Photo by Pearl W. Munson.

Butter factory in Hopkinton

Butter factory in Hopkinton

Exterior of a butter factory; one man stands on the second floor and one stands at the receiving station platform, where farmers would deposit their milk. The butter factory burned in 1897. Circa 1890. Hopkinton, NY.

Day’s Mill in Hopkinton

Day’s Mill in Hopkinton

Morris Day posing in front of Day’s Mill on the Saint Regis River, in which logs float. Circa 1900. Hopkinton, NY.

Workers at Stella Mines in De Kalb

Workers at Stella Mines in Stellaville

Portrait of workers at Stella Mines. Caption with photograph reads: Willis Warren Wells is the tall, thin faced man in the back row, seventh from the right. This building is not the ore-processing mill. The open-ended building seen faintly in the upper left corner, however, may be the railroad repair shop and its elevated track. […]

Winter view of Fullerville

View of Fullerville under snow, including the West Branch of the Oswegatchie, the Russell Turnpike crosses over a bridge in the center of the photo, and a factory on the right. Circa 1900. Fullerville in the Town of Fowler, NY.