Type of Work: Dairy Industry

Tasting cheese in the farm store of Sugar House Creamery in Upper Jay

Tasting cheese in the farm store of Sugar House Creamery in Upper Jay

Casey Galligan, Creamery Manager, gives out samples of cheese in the farm store of Sugar House Creamery, a farm and cheese-making business that makes European-style cheese from twelve Brown Swiss cows. 2016. Upper Jay, NY. Photo is a still from a video produced by Josh Clements Productions for ANCA (the Adirondack North Country Association.

Feeding cows in the Sugar House Creamery barn in Upper Jay

Feeding cows in the Sugar House Creamery barn in Upper Jay

Margot Brooks and Alex Eaton feeding their cows in the barn of Sugar House Creamery, a farm and cheese-making business that makes European-style cheese from twelve Brown Swiss cows. 2016. Upper Jay, NY. Photo is a still from a video produced by Josh Clements Productions for ANCA (the Adirondack North Country Association).

Bringing the cows in at the Sugar House Creamery barn in Upper Jay

Bringing the cows in at the Sugar House Creamery barn in Upper Jay

Margot Brooks walks cows into the barn at the Sugar House Creamery farm, where she and the rest of the Sugar House Creamery team make European-style cheese from twelve Brown Swiss cows. 2016. Upper Jay, NY. Photo is a still from a video produced by Josh Clements Productions for ANCA (the Adirondack North Country Association).

Sweeping the Sugar House Creamery barn in Upper Jay

Sweeping the Sugar House Creamery barn in Upper Jay

Margot Brooks sweeping the barn floor at the Sugar House Creamery farm, where she and the rest of the Sugar House Creamery team make European-style cheese from twelve Brown Swiss cows. 2016. Upper Jay, NY. Photo is a still from a video produced by Josh Clements Productions for ANCA (the Adirondack North Country Association).

Inside the De Kalb Cheese factory in De Kalb

Inside the De Kalb Cheese factory in De Kalb

Floyd Denesha poses inside the De Kalb Cheese factory. Whey pumps and cheese vats can be seen in foreground. Against the back wall is the press for forming wheels of cheese. 1940. Town of De Kalb, NY.

Inside the Thompson milk barn in Osbornville

Inside the Thompson milk barn in Osbornville

Donald, Clinton and Herbert Thompson in their dairy barn with milk pails. Photograph by Leo Thompson. (Clinton was DeKalb historian Bryan Thompson’s father.) August 1956. Osbornville in Town of De Kalb, NY. Listen to Bryan’s story of his childhood work of chasing cows out of the barn – and failing at it in front of […]

Cheese factory exterior at Pierce’s Corners in Macomb

Cheese factory exterior at Pierce’s Corners in Macomb

The exterior of a cheese factory at Pierce’s Corners, an area in southwestern Macomb. Three men stand at entrance to the factory, next to a poster for the St. Lawrence County Fair in Canton, NY, from September 17-20, 1912. Milk receiving platform on right. 1912. Pierce’s Corners in the town of Macomb, NY.