North Country At Work

Man docks a car ferry in the Raquette Lake Ferry station. Aboard is a calf and a 1912 Hudson automobile. 1915. Raquette Lake, NY. Gift of Mr. E.A.N. Kerr, courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

The dining room of Prospect House with tables in rows with white table cloths.  People are sitting at the various tables, servers are standing between them. Note that waiters are African-American. Photograph by Edward Bierstadt. Circa 1885. Blue Mountain Lake, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Interior of Cheeseman’s Dry Goods Store with a man behind the counter. Photograph by William F. Kollecker. 1915. Lake Placid, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Jacques Suzanne, wearing a fur coat, lying in the snow beside a team of dogs harnessed to a sled. 1930-1950. Lake Placid, NY. Inscription reads: “To my friend Noah John Rondeau.” Rondeau was known as the Adirondack hermit. Photo courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Dogsled team in Lake Placid with mountain in the background. Three people are in the sled, two people behind it. Photograph by Alfred W. Santway. Lake Placid, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Dogsled team on the edge of a field. Photograph by Alfred W. Santway. Lake Placid, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Group of guides, some with long arms, at Martin’s Hotel. September 1876. Saranac Lake, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

William Nylan behind the bar of the Minerva Hotel. 1908-1910. Minerva, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Six-horse stagecoach filled with passengers in front of Paul Smith’s Hotel; probably guests on porch. Photograph by Seneca Ray Stoddard. 1880. Paul Smiths, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.