A lumber camp crew group photo, in Harrisville, NY. Note that there are many native people among the workers (possibly from Awkwesasne), as well as women and a young girl on the far right; most likely they helped run the camp as cooks and washerwomen. The workers are pictured with “double bitted” axes, which had […]
“Indian Lumberjacks” written on photo, picturing two young men (possibly Iroquois or Algonquin ancestry, likely from Awkwesasne) posing with axes near a felled tree. Circa 1900-1910. Harrisville, NY.
Barbers and customers: one barber is cutting the hair of a young boy, the other is shaving a man. Circa 1910 to 1920. Harrisville, NY.
Using ice tongs to unload ice from a bobsled at the Deers Head Inn. 1923. Elizabethtown, NY. Donated by Paul Trym in 1973.
Caption on photo reads: Mineville Plant – loading sized rock into railroad cars. Near the mines owned and operated by Witherbees, Sherman, & Company until 1939; then, leased to and operated by Republic Steel until 1971. Circa 1940s. Mineville in the Town of Moriah, NY.
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.
Hand mucking underground, digging out ore in the mines at Mineville. Circa 1900-1910. The hamlet of Mineville in the town of Moriah, NY.
Worker at construction site, building concrete block foundation. Worker is pictured casting a concrete beam. Circa 1940s. Essex County, NY.
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, […]
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.
