North Country At Work

Two unidentified women outside Hulls Lumber Camp. Men sharpen axes on a grindstone in the background. 1900. Keene Valley, NY. Donated by D. Price. Courtesy of the Keene Valley Library Archives.

Workers of the Crown Point Iron Company railroad stand by tracks with track repair tools in hand. Early wood fired locomotive with tender and one passenger car can be seen behind them. The rail repair car is labeled “C. P. I. C. R.” Crown Point Iron Company Railroad.1870- 1880. May be in Ironville, NY. Courtesy […]

Two men with block of ice. This appears to be ice stored through the winter. Photograph by Edward P. Fynmore. Circa 1950. May be Boonville, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Men cut ice from a frozen lake. Photograph by Ferris Jacob Meigs. In the Adirondacks region, NY.. 1930-1940. From the Ferris Meigs Logging Photograph Collection: Andrews Donation, courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Group portrait of miners at Hooper Mine with shovels, picks, and wheelbarrows. Steam engine in woods in background; pulley with wooden panel at right. Possibly construction of railroad. 1910. North River, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Miners drill a drift heading inside a mineshaft. Republic Steel Company mine. From the Patrick Farrell Mining Photograph Collection. Mineville, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Haseltene sharpening drill bits. From the Patrick Farrell Mining Photograph Collection. Essex County, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.