North Country At Work

A Real Photo Postcard of Keibel’s Hunting Camp, featuring a hunter posing with a buck in front of a log cabin. Circa 1900-1910. Wanakena, NY.

Pictured is Bill Rasbeck, a well-known Cranberry Lake guide, whose clientele included artist Frederic Remington. He is holding a gun and wearing an Adirondack pack-basket. His hunting dog stands beside him. Circa 1900. Cranberry Lake, NY. Taken by photographer W.J. Carpenter, M.D. Amateur.

Four hunting guides sit in an old bark roofed Adirondack lean-to, filled with hunting, fishing, and camping gear. In the middle of the picture is a classic Adirondack pack-basket. Circa 1890s. Cranberry Lake, NY.

A seven person hunting party sits between a tent and a pyramid of fishing poles and long guns. Note the classic Adirondack pack-basket being used as a chair on the far right. Circa 1895. Cranberry Lake, NY. Taken by W.J. Carpenter, M.D. Amateur.

Eureka steam launch and a crew of loggers posing on a dock holding logging tools (peaveys, double bitted axes and pikes) at dock equipped with a hand operated crane for loading logs and lumber onto boats. Circa 1890-1900, Herkimer County. Photo printed by Stratton Photo, Utica, NY

The Howland Brothers were well known Cranberry Lake hunting and fishing guides in the late 1800s. In this photo they are posed on the porch of their camp on Cranberry Lake, with two women and a girl. Note that the camp was built using Adirondack style vertical log siding. Circa 1910. Cranberry Lake, NY.

The Snow Train (which ran between Utica and Thendara) arriving at the Thendara Station. It was full of skiers headed for the slopes and winter activities in Old Forge. Circa late 1930s. Thendara, NY. Click here for the full story of Old Forge’s Snow Train.  

The “Fawn” steamship being loaded with baggage (including barrels and steamer trunks) from a luggage cart on a makeshift dock. A canoe is banked in front of the steamship. The “Fawn” traveled the Moose River from Minnehaha to Fulton Chain (Thendara) in the late 1800s. “Fawn” was owned by William Scott Decamp. Circa 1870-1880. Town […]

Three men work stocking fish (transported in milk cans) on Crooked Lake, north of Beaver River Flow. The aircraft was a Stinson Seaplane operated by Phoenix Adirondack Flights out of Inlet, NY. Circa 1940s.

Fish stocking (in the early style, using milk cans to transport fish) at Brandreth Lake in the Town of Long Lake in Hamilton County in 1949. The plane delivering the cans of fish was operated by Phoenix Adirondack Flights out of Inlet, NY.