North Country At Work

Man rowing pleasure boat on Long Lake. Circa 1900-1920. Long Lake, NY. Photo courtesy of the Town of Long Lake Archives.

First float bridge in Long Lake, which was built around 1870. Long Lake, NY. Photo courtesy of the Town of Long Lake Archives.

1934 Waco Cabin Seaplane transporting a deer on its floats. Circa 1957. Long Lake, NY. Photo courtesy of the Town of Long Lake Archives.

Blue Mountain Lake stage coach called Turner’s Tavern in the Adirondacks. Photo courtesy of the Town of Long Lake Archives.

Passenger steamboat on the Saint Lawrence River. Circa 1910-1915. Hammond, NY.

Joyce Bozak on her family’s business, Bozak & Sons, a garage and used car dealership for which she has been the bookkeeper since its opening in 1982. The division of labor was: her husband sold the used cars, her son did the repairs, and she kept the numbers straight. Interviewed on May 31, 2018. Long […]

Soper Brothers, Fred and Norris with propeller-powered ice sled on runners, that they rigged up out of old car parts, with a propeller and engine. In the Soper garage building opposite the mill. Circa 1920s.  Hammond, NY. Read our story on the Soper Brothers here.

A steam train hauling ore. In the background are workhorses and cows and a steam shovel. Photo by Henry M. Beach. 1910. Hamilton County. Photo courtesy of the Adirondack Experience: the Museum on Blue Mountain Lake. For more on Henry M. Beach’s life and photography, check out our North Country at Work story on him.

Bill Hull in front of his milk truck at his grandparent’s farm in Lisbon in 1986. He drove milk trucks on and off four around 20 years starting in 1981. 1986. Lisbon, NY. Courtesy of Bill Hull. For a look into the daily life of a milk truck driver, check out our story on Bill here.

Horse and buggy outside Horace N. Clark’s funeral home. Circa 1900-1910. Potsdam, NY.