North Country At Work

Postmaster Algerton C. Farr sitting in his office in the post office. June 28, 1909. De Kalb Junction, NY. Photo taken by Myrtle Penny Rice, donated by Naomi Rice.

Dolph Fluno and one of the Merithew boys getting ready to do some haying on the Maple Ridge Road. 1920. Town of DeKalb, NY.

Workers pose before threshing grain on the Ira Poor farm on Childs Road. Circa 1890s-1900s. Town of De Kalb, NY.

The work crew employed to construct some of the buildings for the Carbola Chemical Company Mine and Plant, which was located in the village of Natural Bridge in the Town of Diana, Lewis County. Circa 1900-1910. Natural Bridge, NY. Check out this North Country at Work story to learn more about the Carbola Chemical Company.

Portrait of WPA (Work Projects Administration) workers who were digging deep water holes for fire protection. Carrol Gazin on the far right in bib overalls. Circa 1935-43. Harrisville, NY.

Portrait of workers at the Ingrahams Sawmill, standing on a railroad track in front of stacked lumber. Note two youngsters on  the left. Circa 1900-1910. Harrisville.

Caption on photo: Photograph taken in the New York lime quarry shortly after the cave discovery in the fall of 1906. Note the pocket that contained the calcite crystals, located on the left side of the photograph, approximately midway between the quarry floor and the top of the quarry face. Photograph courtesy of the New […]

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 […]

Waiter and waitress staff at the Windsor Hotel, owned by William Kellogg, in Elizabethtown. Circa 1900-1910.

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.