North Country At Work

A woman stands in a field holding a dish. Chickens feed from a trough on the ground. Circa 1910. Hermon, NY.

Clara Grant working on a straw hat inside her Millinery and Hitchcock store. Around her are hats on display and posters of different hat styles. 1906. Hermon, NY.

Clara Grant’s Millinery and Hitchcock store interior, featuring displayed hats. Pictured left to right: Lena Cook, Clara Grant, and an unnamed man sitting in a chair. 1906. Hermon, NY.

Nine men holding tools stand on a wooden trestle bridge across Tanner Creek near Stellaville, a hamlet of De Kalb. The bridge was part of the Adirondack and St. Lawrence Railroad. Four women and a man sitting in a horse-drawn wagon are on the ground next to the bridge. The bridge is under construction, and […]

The Redwood Peddler makes a transaction with Mrs. Henry Schmerhorn at her home on the Calaboga Road. Her son Paul stands behind the wagon. Peddlers like this one traveled from home to home, farm to farm at a time when travel to town was sometime difficult for those who lived on the countryside. Circa 1900. Hammond, NY. […]

Exterior of the Somerville House, where Silas Wright stayed on his way to and from Albany. Several men are seated or standing in front of the building. A woman in a long hoop skirt is in the doorway, and a woman with a small child is visible in the first floor window. Circa 1870. Sommerville […]

Eleven women and three men sit at desks or stand inside a classroom of Gouverneur High School. Circa 1897-98. Gouverneur, NY.

Interior of the International Lace Mill. Two rows of seamstresses work over sewing machines, sewing piles of lace. Circa 1910. Gouverneur, NY.

Six phone operators sit at the switchboards at the Home telephone company. Circa 1915-1920. Gouverneur, NY. Check out our story on being a telephone operator in the North Country.

Exterior of the Sunnyside Inn, with staff and guests posing on and around the inn porch. Circa 1910. Star Lake, NY.