North Country At Work

Utica & Black River line #13, “Thomas Foster,” wood-fired engine. Note baggage car on left. This is probably the track crew, responsible for maintaining the tracks. 1888. Glenfield, NY.

Great Bend Firemen (1st department) stand in “uniform” in front of their fire truck. Circa 1938. Great Bend, NY. Men, from left to right, are: Paul Snyder, Leonard (Mose) Wiltonstock, Floyd Rendle (chief), Harold Comstock, Joel Bacon, Jerome Sisson, James Call, Fred Sterling, James Green, and C. B. Dodge.

“The finishing room at our early mill in Norfolk, included a number of women employees as well as several children.” Circa 1900. Norfolk, NY. Originally printed in the St. Regis News Volume 2, Number 9 of September 1974, a newsletter put out by the St. Regis Paper Company.

“A work crew took time out for this photograph during construction of the mill in Herrings, New York. Our company purchased the mill in 1912.” Circa 1910-1920. Herrings, NY.  Originally printed in the St. Regis News Volume 2, Number 9 of September 1974, a newsletter put out by the St. Regis Paper Company. Related stories […]

“Employees at our first mill in Deferiet, New York,” circa late 1890s. Deferiet, NY. Originally printed in the St. Regis News Volume 2, Number 9 of September 1974, a newsletter put out by the St. Regis Paper Company. Related stories on Deferiet mills, here.

New York Central Railroad freight house employees. June 15, 1923. Watertown, NY. Photographer: Shepardson.

Workers at the Railway Express Agency. 1931. Watertown, NY.

Portrait of railroad Freight House employees.  1902. Somewhere in Jefferson County in NYS.

Red Cross nurses posed in unknown location during WWI. 1910-1920. Jefferson County, NY.

An early office at Pine Camp was set up in a New York Central railroad car. The caption says: “We now have our office in a car.” 1910. Fort Drum area. Note: Pine Plains/Pine Camp started in 1908, became Camp Drum in 1951, and Fort Drum in 1974. At all stages it was used for […]