North Country At Work

Unidentified workers at Dexter Chair Factory. Circa 1910s. Dexter, NY.

Workers at Limerick Cheese Plant, left to right: Alice Stano, ruthKizzer, unknown, Mickey Gracey, Helen (unknown last name). Circa 1960. Limerick, NY. Audio clip is of John Stano, Alice Stano’s son, remembering his mother’s time working at the plant.

Mill workers stand in front of American flag in dedication at the Frontenac sulfite paper mill. Circa 1880s? Dexter, NY

Dexter flour and feed mill employees, circa 1880. Dexter, NY.

Sash and Blind employees. Front row from left: Winfield Bailey, William Aaron Dillenback, George Winegar, William Fletcher and Nelson Bayley. Back row: E.B. Dillenback, Greenleaf Penny, Ed Winegar, Frank Tucker, James Crabb and Alfred Rhines. Loaned by Nora Dillenback. Circa 1880. Dexter, NY.

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 […]

W.H. Loomis talc miners in mine at Balmat, a small hamlet in the town of Fowler, which was a mining town. Men wearing a mix of electric and carbide headlamps, as well as breathing apparatuses. Front row: Frank Atkinson, Arnold Whitton, Don Sayerson, Joe Shatreaux, Everett Maybee, Les Davis, Nelson Shampine, Leonard Bresette, Earl Harrington, […]

Workers at Jones Stone Company with slabs of marble sidewalk, possibly to be put in boxcar at left, bound for Hoboken, New Jersey. Circa 1925-1930. Gouverneur, NY.

Saint Lawrence Marble Company employees photographed from the road outside the company office building. Circa 1900. Gouverneur, NY.

The Jones Cut Stone Company work crew, 1936-1941.Steam shovel at work. Gouverneur.