North Country At Work

Coach Jerry Welch gives his basketball team instruction for their successful win in Division III. 1986. Potsdam, NY.

Head Coach Bill Tavares in the outdoor, covered section of the USA Luge shop. 2017. Lake Placid, NY. Photo taken by Andy Flynn. For more on how the USA Luge team constructs their sleds, read the full North Country at Work story. 

The Hermon House, which sat directly across from the junction of Main and Church Streets. Caption written on photo: The St. Lawrence Pyrite Company, under general manager Felix Vogel, celebrated the completion of the railroad by throwing a party here for Hermon citizens on Christmas Eve, 1906. Ten men stand next to what is probably […]

Newton Falls Post Office, Associated Stores, and a gas pump. Circa 1954. Newton Falls, NY. Dwight Church??

Wonderland Theatre exterior, featuring film posters and two young men. The middle sign says “No Show Tonight. Goin Fishing. S.S.” 1918. Canton, NY. Check out this related North Country at Work story to hear about the resurrection of a movie theater in Old Forge.

The exterior of the American House hotel, with employees and guests on the hotel porches; note the chambermaids standing on the second floor.  The American House Hotel was built in 1825 and torn down in 1916. It was located at the intersection of Main Street and Park Street in Canton, where the Post Office and […]

Adirondack Hunting Guides on the porch of Howland’s Camp or Hotel in the Northern Adirondacks. Circa 1920.

Exterior of the Sunnyside Inn, with staff and guests posing on and around the inn porch. Circa 1910. Star Lake, NY.

Hunters holding long arms outside a log and canvas hunting camp during the fall.  Circa 1900. Fine, NY.

Men posing outside the New York Central Railroad station with a trophy deer on a luggage wagon. Circa 1900. Newton Falls, NY.