Interior of one of the Horse Shoe Forestry Company’s four sugarhouses. Five men tending the patent evaporator pans developed by John Rivet and James Hill and financed by Abbot Augustus Low. Sap enters each evaporator from the large pipe on right controlled by a float mechanism on side of each evaporator. Operations of the Horseshoe […]
Men process maple sap in the interior of one of the Horseshoe Forestry Company buildings. Metal canners with spigots on the right and wooden barrels on the left. Men are reheating syrup in a boiler. Operations of the Horseshoe Forestry Company. Photograph by George W. Baldwin. 1901. Piercefield, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.
Several men transferring maple sap from buckets into gathering tank on horse-drawn bobsled. Operations of the Horseshoe Forestry Company. Photograph by George W. Baldwin. 1901. Piercefield, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.
Two teams of horses hauling large maple sap gathering tanks on bobsleds. Operations of the Horseshoe Forestry Company. Photograph by George W. Baldwin. 1901. Piercefield, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.
Sugar works of Warren Humes, 3/4 mile from Forest Home. Steam from boiling of maple sap. Taken March 28, 1897, by Fred E. Whipple, Warren’s son-in-law. Harrisville, NY. Related story, here.
Merton Mantle and Myron Humes unloading the sap tub, which is on a sledge. The trough at bottom right was used to run sap from the tub to the boiling pan (or holding container) so the tub could be taken back out to the sugar bush for another load of sap. This photo was taken […]
Empty sap buckets at Art Mantle’s sugar bush in Harrisville. Buckets in stack are already washed and drying, those on the ground haven’t been washed yet. Clean buckets are being prepared for storage until the next year’s sugaring season. Circa 1910. Harrisville, NY.
Edgar Mantle’s sugarbush. End of the sugaring season, washing wooden buckets before putting away for storage until the following year. Harrisville, NY. Circa 1910.
(Left to right) Merle Mayhew Valentine, Hazel Chadwick, Myrtle Mantle, Kendrick Shaw, Pearl Shaw, Dorothy Mayhew Reeder, Libbie Cring Koster, Eliazar Shaw. Unloading sap tub from special undersling gathering sap wagon, at Warren Humes’ sugar house, probably on a weekend when the children came to visit. Harrisville, NY. Circa 1910.
Warren Humes’ sugar camp. Harrisville, NY. Circa 1910. Related story, here.
