Lunchbreak in the woods for working loggers at Chapel Pond. Horse in the background is getting lunch, too, from a feeding bag tied around his neck. 1905. Chapel Pond in Keene, NY. Names from left to right, sitting on ground: Lee Garfield, Frank Delorme, child Clifford Delorme, Dwight Warren, Bogey Sprague, Henry Delorme, Jed Delorme. […]
Caption under photo reads: Adirondack Log Drivers. The halt at noon – coffee and baked beans. Jay, NY, circa 1890-1900. Originally in History of the lumber industry in the state of New York, by William H. Fox Forest, Fish & Game Commission report, 1900.
“Caught napping,” a photo by F.A.Van Sant, picturing a lumberman laying on his back next to a log flume, which was used to transport pulp logs down to the river. 1900. Jay, NY. Photo scanned from a print in History of the lumber industry in the state of New York, by William H. Fox Forest, […]
Load of cut logs on bobsled, harvested by the Leo Spellman Company, traveling to Gates sawmill. “Black Pine” written on photograph. January 23, 1901. Essex County.
Logging drivers, pikes in hand, at the big boom (a barrier set up to stop logs on a river) in Glens Falls on the Hudson River. Circa 1890s. Glens Falls, NY.
Log yard in Keene, NY. Log yard at the Pete Liberty lumber camp, where logs were stacked at the edge of the Ausable River to await the “spring break-up,” when the ice melted and the logs could be driven downriver. Circa 1890-1900. Keene, NY on the Ausable River, at a spot called Clifford Brook. (Note: […]
Seneca Ray Stoddard photo of crew of lumbermen felling and limbing spruce trees with double-bitted axes in winter, circa 1880-1890. Essex County in NYS.
Aerial view of logging road leading to the “skid head,” where logs were loaded onto bobsleds to be transported out of the woods. This photograph captures the whole process of loading logs. Men rolled logs down onto bobsleds attached to horses; teamsters waited their turn to load. Pictured are a hauling sledge, logs and lumber, […]
Men posing “after a day’s work measuring timber” in 1900. Circa 1890-1900. Raquette Lake, NY. Courtesy of Professor A. S. Bickmore. Donated by Fulton Town Historian Leon C. Baldwin.
Drive of pulp wood logs on a branch of the Boquet River. Management posing with the “peaveys,” hook tools with sharp pointed end used to roll logs. Circa 1890- 1900. Essex County in NY. H.M MacDougal was donor.
