North Country At Work

Aerial shot of the DeGrasse Paper Company foundations. Factory was informally known as the Pyrites Paper Plant. Late 1970s. Pyrites NY. Taken by Wayne Lincoln.

Lisbon high school senior class of 1939 at the Sheffield Milk headquarters in New York City. The Sheffield Milk plant used the railroad to transport milk from Lisbon to New York City, and every year they sent the Lisbon senior class on a trip to their headquarters in the city. Left to right are: Mrs. […]

The interior of the Wilna Farms Company Butter and Cheese Factory, part of the Carter Family Dairy, run by A. Byron Carter. Note milk cans. Circa 1900. Carthage, NY.

Workers pose in front of the Jones and Son Coal Company, located at the bottom of State Street Hill near the railroad tracks. Unidentified men are seated in a two-horse drawn wagon on the unpaved street.  Circa 1900-1910. Carthage, NY.

Workers pose standing and on a horse drawn wagon in front of the Meyer & Farrar door and sash factory, built on the banks of the Black River. It was built to replace the factory that burned in the fire of 1884. This photo was taken circa 1900-1910. Carthage, NY. Check out this North Country at […]

Workers, covered in soot and  holding shovels, stand in front of the coal (?)-powered furnaces. These fires heated the forges of Wilna Machine, a machine shop located near the Carthage paper mills. Circa 1890-1900. Carthage, NY.

Workers inside Wilna Machine, a machine shop that made machines for the paper industry around Carthage and West Carthage. Two workers stand in front of machinery used to make more machines. Circa 1900-1910. Carthage, NY.

National Paper Products West End Division, machine room number 5, looking southwest, wet end of the process. February 1930. Carthage, NY. Town of Wilna archives. Caption info compiled by Lynn Thornton, Laura Prievo, and Harold Sanderson for the Images of America book Around Carthage and West Carthage.

Slitter is cutting and rewinding from a roll. Circa 1940-1950. Carthage, NY. From the Climax archives, scanned by Lynn Thornton for the Four Rivers Historical Society.

Pictured is the dry end of the paper machine—the finish end with rolls visible. Circa 1940-1950. Carthage, NY. From the Climax archives, scanned by Lynn Thornton for the Four Rivers Historical Society.