North Country At Work

Men posing “after a day’s work measuring timber” in 1900. Circa 1890-1900. Raquette Lake, NY. Courtesy of Professor A. S. Bickmore. Donated by Fulton Town Historian Leon C. Baldwin.

Pete Liberty’s lumber camp; employees pose for a photo in the snow. Circa 1890-1900. Ausable Forks, NY. Donated by Mr. and Mrs. John Liberty, October 4, 1977. Photographer was named Cheeseman (other details about photographer unknown).

Construction crew building the new County Jail in Elizabethtown, NY, circa 1900- 1910.

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.

Captain Lovelace of the Elmer Jones, a ferry boat owned by the Brockville and Morristown Transportation Company, which operated a busy ferry lined between the US and Canada on the Saint Lawrence River. Circa early 1950s. Morristown, NY.

Female assembly-line workers and male management at the Indian Root Factory, which manufactured miracle cures, elixirs, and pills, etc. Circa 1900. Morristown, NY. Pictured from left to right are Row 1: Manie Manard, Julia A. Bolton, Julia Rowland Richerdson, Kittie Manard, Lace Worden Hawkin, Row 2: Emma hay Dyen, Mary Roland, Elizabeth Dunn, Uncle Nicholson, […]

Morristown Fire Department portrait, taken in 1940. Pictured are first row: Jim Cree, JV Hughes, Forest Edwards, Clarence Carpenter, Ruben Record, Harold French, Thad Cater, and Barney Farrell. Second row: George Slater, Charlie Coffler, George Delair, Sylvester Livingston, George Adams. Row three: Floyd Reagen, Jimmy Moran, Art Bordine, Ralf Garrison, Howard Scott, Grant Whitmarsh, Ben […]

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, […]

Employees in front of a supply store. Ogdensburg, NY. Circa 1900.

Custom House employees in front of custom house on June 30th, 1894. This was the oldest custom house in the U.S. at the time. Originally built by David Parish  for his weight forwarding business Ogdensburg, NY.  Identified are W.R. Remington, Collector. W.H. Craig, Special Deputy Collector. F. Johnson, Bond Clerk. Q.Q. Mattenson, Manifest Clerk. F. […]