Collecting sap for the Horseshoe Forestry Company in Piercefield

Man carrying a specially made sap gathering pail (tapers from bottom to top to avoid spills), standing beside two maple trees with sap buckets hanging from them. Operations of the Horseshoe Forestry Company. Photograph by George W. Baldwin. 1901. Piercefield, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

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