Workers stand in front of the J&J Rogers Company wood conveyer, which was 76 feet tall, on the East Branch of the Ausable River. Logs to the left of the conveyor are leftovers from the previous year’s pile. Au Sable Forks, NY. Courtesy of Elsa Voelcker. Click here to read or listen to our three-part story on […]
Worker oversees logs being floated into the wood room at the J&J Rogers Company’s pulp mill. Au Sable Forks, NY. Courtesy of Elsa Voelcker. Click here to read or listen to our three-part story on the rise and fall of the J&J Rogers Company, one of the biggest industrial users of the Adirondack landscape.
Two workers stand on a floating dock above the J&J Rogers Company’s pulp and paper mill dam. Log drives sent pulp wood down both branches of the Ausable River from 1894-1923. Au Sable Forks, NY. Courtesy of Elsa Voelcker. Click here to read or listen to our three-part story on the rise and fall of […]
Four men stand in front of a logging camp. 1911. Lyons Falls. Photo may be by Henry M. Beach. Photo courtesy of Jim Fox.
Men logging with horse teams. Akwesasne. Photo from the Akwesasne Cultural Center Museum archives.
Evan Nahor poses with large logging equipment. Circa 2020. Long Lake, NY. Photo courtesy of Evan Nahor. Read more about Nahor’s logging career here: https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/43160/20210224/north-country-at-work-an-adirondack-logger-keeps-working-in-the-woods
Adirondack logger Evan Nahor poses next to a bulldozer. Circa 2020. Long Lake, NY. Photo courtesy of Evan Nahor. Read more about Nahor’s logging career here: https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/43160/20210224/north-country-at-work-an-adirondack-logger-keeps-working-in-the-woods
Two men in the process of logging (using a Model T as a power source) in the William C. Whitney Wilderness Area. Note from donor Patricia Quinn: “From my Great Grandfather Earnest Halsey Johnson Family Albums”. Circa 1910-1920. On the William C. Whitney Wilderness Area, in the town of Long Lake, Hamilton County. Donated by […]
Rivermen working the Big Boom on the Hudson River near Glens Falls, NY. Unknown date, circa late 1800s, early 1900s. Courtesy of the Crandall Public Library Photograph Collection #1730, The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library.
The lumber storage yard of the Triangle Lumber Company. It was called the Triangle Lumber Company because it was owned by three people. Onchiota, NY. Circa 1960 to 1970. Photo donated by Jill McKenty.
