Cutting ice with kerosene powered ice saw during Carthage, NY ice harvest. 1947. Carthage Ice Harvest Collection donated by Eleanor Query, whose father, Francis George Query, is pictured in many of the photos. Related story, here.
Cutting ice during Carthage, NY ice harvest. 1947. Carthage Ice Harvest Collection donated by Eleanor Query, whose father, Francis George Query, is pictured in many of the photos. Related story, here.
Haying at Forest Home. Burton Humes with rake, Merton Mantle on load, Kendrick Shaw with pitchfork, Harlan Whipple with hand on horse, Lyman Humes in front of horse. Haying was done by hand. Piles of hay are called “haycocks.” Harrisville, NY. Circa 1920. Related story, here.
William E. Humes (standing) and George Martin (sitting) sharpening blade for hand-scythe on a hand-operated wetstone. Harrisville, NY. Circa 1900 (date not known for certain).
Maple Hill camp. (Left to right) Warren Humes, Myron Humes, Burton Humes. One of the four or five camps Warren kept for hunters who stayed at his hotel. Pictured: Celebrating the success of the hunt. Harrisville, NY. Circa 1910. Related story, here.
Merton Mantle and Myron Humes unloading the sap tub, which is on a sledge. The trough at bottom right was used to run sap from the tub to the boiling pan (or holding container) so the tub could be taken back out to the sugar bush for another load of sap. This photo was taken […]
Empty sap buckets at Art Mantle’s sugar bush in Harrisville. Buckets in stack are already washed and drying, those on the ground haven’t been washed yet. Clean buckets are being prepared for storage until the next year’s sugaring season. Circa 1910. Harrisville, NY.
Edgar Mantle’s sugarbush. End of the sugaring season, washing wooden buckets before putting away for storage until the following year. Harrisville, NY. Circa 1910.
(Left to right) Merle Mayhew Valentine, Hazel Chadwick, Myrtle Mantle, Kendrick Shaw, Pearl Shaw, Dorothy Mayhew Reeder, Libbie Cring Koster, Eliazar Shaw. Unloading sap tub from special undersling gathering sap wagon, at Warren Humes’ sugar house, probably on a weekend when the children came to visit. Harrisville, NY. Circa 1910.
(Right to left) Warren Humes, Mrs. Coulon, Hazel B. Worden, Ward Saunders, Wendell Humes, Dan Cleveland. Taken at Warren Humes’ sugarbush. To the far right is the big kettle to boil syrup in, Warren Humes testing temperature. Hired help and sons pictured as well. Harrisville, NY. Circa 1910.
