Woman driving wooden wheeled dump rake.Horse is wearing fly net to keep flies off as it worked. Circa 1920s. Philadelphia, NY area. Note windrow (you can see it through spokes of wheel). After dump raking, hay would either be picked up with a hayloader and put on wagons for off-loading in a hay mow, or […]
Unidentified family standing in front of G.A. Rebyor & Son International Harvester Power Farm Equipment truck. Circa 1915. Philadelphia, NY.
Store exterior of the Harry Benjamin Kent Jewelry and Shoe Store. August 2, 1922. Philadelphia, NY.
First members of the Heuvelton University Extension Club. These women and their successors were the founders of Heuvelton’s library. Pictured left to right are: Elizabeth (Libby) Cranston, Amy Norton (teacher), Della Brown George, Alice Warren (teacher), Lida Gray Hanna, Jeanette Moore Burnside, Sarah Hanson, Laura Washburn (teacher), Jessie Farmer Blood, Jeanette Ballantine, Mabel Spooner, Pearl […]
Exterior of the Snyder House, with employees pictured on front porch. The hotel was bought and turned into a hotel in 1870s by John Snyder. It was famous for its New Years’ dances because its dance floor was on springs. The hotel burned August 2, 1923. Photo circa 1880s. Heuvelton, NY.
Maude Mahaffey hand carrying milk pails to the milk house. 1950. Boonville, NY.
Snyder Hotel with staff. Circa 1870s. Heuvelton, NY.
Mr. and Mrs. John McKelvey in front of their pioneer-hewn log cabin with dovetail corners. Mrs. McKelvey is tending their chickens. Circa 1880s. Heuvelton, NY.
Mrs. Carlton Patterson polishing obsidian. She was a lapidariast. From the Ogdensburg Journal’s Leisure Time Advance News insert from September 10, 1972. Heuvelton, NY.
Baker Rollande Henry, nickname “Sarge,” piping frosting onto a cake. By 1978 she had been making cakes for 25 years. Rollande moved to the US from Hull in Quebec in 1928. From the Ogdensburg Journal’s Leisure Time Advance News insert from July 1978. Heuvelton, NY.
