Announcer Neil Drew in the main control room of WNBZ. Drew went on to work as news director and anchor for Channel 5 TV in Plattsburgh. Circa 1963. Photo donated by Chris Brescia. Saranac Lake, NY. [Editor’s note: Chris Brescia is a radio engineer who worked at WNBZ and who also did some volunteer work […]
Paperboys who delivered Syracuse Herald, Syracuse Journal, Saturday Evening Post and Watertown Daily Standard to Black River community. Circa 1940s. Black River, NY.
Interior shot of a newspaper print shop, men standing behind galley pages. Electric lights. Was taken circa 1914. Gouverneur, NY.
Interior of Harold Storie’s Radio Shop, taken in 1925. Note Sonora Radio speakers at bottom right and in center, on top of radio with five dials. Gouverneur, NY.
Dexter Free Press, a Chandler & Price 8 x 12 letter press, treadle operated. The newspaper closed about 1945. Circa 1915-1930. Dexter, NY.
Detailed map of Pillar Point, circa 1864. Pillar Point, NY.
Unidentified man working on very early typewriter (note: no cover on the working mechanism). Circa 1910. Philadelphia, NY.
Exterior of the printing office of local newspaper The Heuvelton BEE, which was printed from the 1870s until the 1920s. Circa 1910s. Heuvelton, NY.
Railroad employees at the Heuvelton Railroad Station on the train depot platform. Left to right from back of photo: Harley Conklin (telegraph operator), Robert Woodside, maybe William Putnam, Mr. Ellsworth (boss man). Circa 1900. Heuvelton, NY.
The Plaindealer Block on Canton’s Main Street (so called for the Saint Lawrence Plaindealer offices located there), picturing the J.H. McIntosh and American Express Company and unidentified men. Circa 1900. Canton, NY.
