Dan Josephson stocking fall fingerling brook trout in pond. Dan is a fishery biologist who has been working to counteract the effects of acid rain in the Adirondacks for almost 40 years. September 1993. Old Forge, NY. Courtesy of Dan Josephson. For more on Dan and his conservation work, check out this North Country at […]
Men gathered downtown with horses and wagons for Turkey Day, a day just before Thanksgiving during which farmers sold their turkeys to buyers from cities like New York, Boston, and Montreal. Circa 1910. Lisbon, NY. Click here to read a North Country at Work story on a Lisbon girl who hid notes inside of the turkeys her family […]
A neighborhood work circle is getting ready to fill silo at Theron Allen Farm. Six men are on or beside horse drawn wagons. There’s a young boy in the foreground. Circa September of the 1910s. Canton, NY.
S.S. Steel Motor on Sept 7, 1935, loading aluminum ingot in Ogdensburg, NY for the Maytag Co. in Newton, Iowa.
Policemen at the scene of the Hollywood Lounge Bar fire. State Street, Ogdensburg, NY. Circa 1950.
Riverside House station wagon outside a Harrisville livery. The livery was used to board horses, both local and visiting. One could also rent a horse. Pictured out front is a “station wagon” buggy filled with passengers. They would have ridden the buggy from the station to their destination. Taken September 26, 1915. Harrisville, NY.
Firefighting training at Alcoa. Taken September 30, 1948. Massena, NY.
Building the sign at the Alcoa Main Gate. September 27, 1950. Massena, NY.
The area called Monument Park was not always a park; it began life as a cemetery (there are still graves of early settlers on South side of the lot). In November of 1890 residents petitioned for a monument to “perpetuate the memory of soldiers and sailors who served in defense of the Union … and […]
This Main Street photo was taken during removal of a section of the marble sidewalk. Photograph by Nelson B. Winters, Town of Gouverneur Historian. October 11, 1995. Gouverneur, NY.
