North Country At Work

Betty Temmings and Martin Koop at work at the Trudeau Institute. 1940s. Photo donated by Theresa Brown. Saranac Lake, NY.

Cutting ice in Ampersand Bay in Saranac Lake. Note horse with blanket cover. Circa 1912. Donated by the Sheldon Family. Saranac Lake, NY. Related story on ice harvesting, here.

W.H. Loomis talc miners in mine at Balmat, a small hamlet in the town of Fowler which was a mining town. Men took picture using headlamps as illumination. Front row: Frank Atkinson, Arnold Whitton, Don Sayerson, Joe Shatreaux, Everett Maybee, Les Davis, Nelson Shampine, Leonard Bresette, Earl Harrington, John Eysman, Roswell Perrin, Sherm Smith, Harold […]

Unidentified quarry in Gouverneur. Filling boxcars with blasted rock, using team shovel. Circa 1890-1900. Gouverneur, NY.

Worker operates marble cutting diamond drill, which ran on track, in the St. Lawrence Marble Company quarry. Circa 1890-1900. Gouverneur, NY. Check out our story on how marble built Gouverneur.

Worker at Saint Lawrence Marble Company with steam-powered diamond channeling machine,used to cut marble. Circa 1890-1900. Gouverneur, NY.

Saint Lawrence Marble Company “stripping gang”workers who used shovels to clear loose rock from exposed surface of marble. Circa 1890-1900. Gouverneur, NY.

Cutting & Perrin Hardware Store in Gouverneur. Stoves are mentioned on the left hand window, including Glenwood kitchen ranges. Wooden washing machines on both the left and right. Circa 1890s. Gouverneur, NY.

Interior of blacksmith shop and unidentified blacksmith standing at anvil, surrounded by tools of the trade. He is preparing to shoe a horse. Circa 1900, Philadelphia, NY.

Woman driving wooden wheeled dump rake.Horse is wearing fly net to keep flies off as it worked. Circa 1920s. Philadelphia, NY area. Note windrow (you can see it through spokes of wheel). After dump raking, hay would either be picked up with a hayloader and put on wagons for off-loading in a hay mow, or […]