Lumberjack releasing the binding pole on a load of logs, late winter. The opposite of “tensioning,” “unbinding” released the logs for floating downstream. From the pictured location (precise location unknown), logs were floated to Willsboro and Waddhams. Circa 1900-1910. Essex County. Donated by H.M. MacDougal.
Lumber yard outside of Tupper Lake. C: Stacks of lumber on either side of railroad tracks in a lumber yard on the Raquette Pond on Raquette River, near Tupper Lake. The pond is full of logs, and the sawmill is in the background on the left. Photo caption says: Raquette Pond, on Raquette River. Near […]
Workers are measuring the diameter of logs and marking the logs with owner’s log mark, using a metal hammer to press the mark into the logs. This was done to identify logs once they had been sent down river and were retrieved by a mill or factory. Each logging company had their own individual mark, […]
Pulp logs falling from flume into the Ausable River. Circa 1890-1900. Essex County. Photographer was F.A. Van Sant. Originally in History of the lumber industry in the state of New York, by William H. Fox Forest, Fish & Game Commission report, 1900.
Written on photo: Frank Colby and Leslie Lawrence drawing lumber cut and sawed at Euba Mills enroute to Wadhams Mills – loads of hemlock planks were used to plank the Wadhams Mills Dam. Note the poles atop of the loads – they were used to tension the chains or ropes holding the load together. Also, […]
Original caption says: Frank Peterson’s drive on the Boquet River. Loggers holding pikes posing with logs during the spring river drive. 1903. Essex County.
Camp of Adirondack log drivers holding logging tools, with tents and kitchen wagon in the background. Caption under photo reads: Camp of Adirondack River Drivers. Traveling kitchen, or cook-shanty in background. Circa 1890-1900. In the Adirondacks. F.A. Van Sant was the photographer. Originally in History of the lumber industry in the state of New York, […]
Loggers and skid horses posing for a shot at the head of the log skidway where logs would beloaded onto bobsleds. Pictured from left: Smith Veeley, Leo Bradley, Charlie Tyrell, Smith Wilson, Jud Delorm. Will Bradley on far right with saw. 1903. Essex County.
Logs on the river in Willsboro, NY. C: Logs coming over the dam at Willsboro, with flume box in foreground, which directed water into a turbine inside a mill or factory. On the cliff above is the town of Willsboro. Date Unknown. Willsboro, NY.
Caption on photo: “Largest load of pulp to come down the mountain,” taken in front of Bert Lyon’s barber shop. Man on top of the load is Nathan Taylor. Circa 1900-1910. Keene, NY. Donated by Julia Warner Lesser. Note: this entire load is being drawn by just a two-horse team.
