Type of Work: Artisans

Marble slabs in Gouverneur

Marble slabs, with company owners (unknown), workers, horse at marble company. Slabs this large would have been used for sculpture. Circa 1910-1920. Gouverneur, NY. Gouverneur was known as Marble City.

Blacksmith shop in Philadelphia

Interior of blacksmith shop and unidentified blacksmith standing at anvil, surrounded by tools of the trade. He is preparing to shoe a horse. Circa 1900, Philadelphia, NY.

Blacksmith shop in Heuvelton

Three blacksmiths in a Heuvelton blacksmith shop, one of four blacksmith shops in the town. Circa 1900. Heuvelton, NY.

Baker Rollande Henry in Heuvelton

Baker Rollande Henry, nickname “Sarge,” piping frosting onto a cake. By 1978 she had been making cakes for 25 years. Rollande moved to the US from Hull in Quebec in 1928. From the Ogdensburg Journal’s Leisure Time Advance News insert from July 1978. Heuvelton, NY.

Church Street Shoe Service proprietor Joseph Leana in Carthage

Joseph Leana in his  Church Street Shoe Service store, which he opened in 1953 in Carthage, NY. Leana apprenticed with a shoemaker when he was sixteen and went on to start his own businesses, one in Watertown and the second in Carthage. From the July 2, 1986 Carthage Republican Tribune.

Employees of shoe last factory in Natural Bridge

Employees of a shoe last factory in Natural Bridge. Note the lasts in the picture with the men – these shoe lasts were wooden forms used by shoemakers to construct shoes. Men identified in the photo are Frank Cross (first row, third from the left), George Dooley (first row, far right), and Leon Weatherhead (second […]