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.
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, […]
The Cutting brothers shearing sheep in Lewis, NY. Date unknown, sometime between 1890 and 1920.
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.
River drivers freeing caught logs after the main log drive on the Ausable River. Each holds a log pike, used to move logs during a drive. Circa 1890-1900. Jay, NY.
Twelve of Frank Peterson’s log drivers on the Boquet River. Drivers’ names from left : Frank Peterson, unidentified, Philip Ezro, Lewis Lashway, Fred Longware, Nelson Fleury, John Rumney, Peter Fleury, Tuffield Fleury, unidentified, Albert Pierce, George Lashway. Circa 1900-1908. Essex County, NY.
The last run of the Ogdensburg, NY trolley was on April 1, 1932. The trolley had been running since August 14, 1886. When it first started, it carried over 1,400 passengers in the first two days, but by 1932 it was times for buses to take over. Pictured above, from left standing, are Williams Rowledge, […]
Revenue cutter “Gresham,” a coast guard boat in the water in Ogdensburg, NY. 1890s.
Firefighters at work battling the Green Manufacturing Company fire on March 10, 1953. Man in foreground in plainclothes is Chief Leo LebBeau. Ogdensburg, NY.
