North Country At Work

The Orlando Kellogg Concord Coach in front of the Windsor Hotel in Elizabethtown. Kellogg was the hotel owner. Circa 1892.

Using ice tongs to unload ice from a bobsled at the Deers Head Inn. 1923. Elizabethtown, NY. Donated by Paul Trym in 1973.

Stagecoach pulled by four horses arriving at the Stevens House in Lake Placid, loaded with passengers. Note that it is all women in the coach, and all men riding on top. Stage coach is elaborately painted with stag head and forest scenes. Circa 1900-1910. Lake Placid, NY. Photo by L.E. Shattuck.

Two men driving a load of logs; the driver is Leslie Lawrence and the rider is David Stringham. Logs were destined for Hasellion Lumber Company in Wilmington, NY. Caption says: Driver, Leslie Lawrence; Rider, David Stringham. Picture taken at top of Nigger Hill in Elizabethtown. Logs from Peter Liberty job. Donated by Leslie Lawrence. February […]

Written on photo: Frank Colby and Leslie Lawrence drawing lumber cut and sawed at Euba Mills enroute to Wadhams Mills – loads of hemlock planks were used to plank the Wadhams Mills Dam. Note the poles atop of the loads – they were used to tension the chains or ropes holding the load together. Also, […]

Caption on photo: “Largest load of pulp to come down the mountain,” taken in front of Bert Lyon’s barber shop. Man on top of the load is Nathan Taylor. Circa 1900-1910. Keene, NY. Donated by Julia Warner Lesser. Note: this entire load is being drawn by just a two-horse team.

Caption written below photo: Trucks ( wagons) of the International Paper Company loaded with paper for a metropolitan daily. The paper in this photograph represents about half the amount delivered to this newspaper each day. The paper is made from wood pulp. Originally printed in History of the lumber industry in the state of New […]

Team of  horses pulling a wagon with W. Gates and Mattie Spellman on it. They were on Lincoln Pond Road in Elizabethtown. 1920. Elizabethtown, NY

Railroad workers posing with a wood-fired steam locomotive drawing tender car and flat cars. Photo taken in a rail yard, with spare wheels for train cars on right. The engine was owned by the Lake Champlain and Montreal Railroad. Circa 1870-1880. Along Lake Champlain, in either Essex or Clinton County in New York State.

A J.B. Brinsmade wood-fired steam locomotive running on the L.C. & M.R.R., which may stand for the Lake Champlain and Moriah Railroad. J.B. Brinsmade was associated with the mining industry and the railroad in the town of Moriah. Engine #6. Circa 1870-1880. Along Lake Champlain, in either Essex or Clinton County in NYS.