Empty sap buckets at Art Mantle’s sugar bush in Harrisville. Buckets in stack are already washed and drying, those on the ground haven’t been washed yet. Clean buckets are being prepared for storage until the next year’s sugaring season. Circa 1910. Harrisville, NY.
Edgar Mantle’s sugarbush. End of the sugaring season, washing wooden buckets before putting away for storage until the following year. Harrisville, NY. Circa 1910.
(Left to right) Merle Mayhew Valentine, Hazel Chadwick, Myrtle Mantle, Kendrick Shaw, Pearl Shaw, Dorothy Mayhew Reeder, Libbie Cring Koster, Eliazar Shaw. Unloading sap tub from special undersling gathering sap wagon, at Warren Humes’ sugar house, probably on a weekend when the children came to visit. Harrisville, NY. Circa 1910.
Warren Humes’ sugar camp. Harrisville, NY. Circa 1910. Related story, here.
(Right to left) Warren Humes, Mrs. Coulon, Hazel B. Worden, Ward Saunders, Wendell Humes, Dan Cleveland. Taken at Warren Humes’ sugarbush. To the far right is the big kettle to boil syrup in, Warren Humes testing temperature. Hired help and sons pictured as well. Harrisville, NY. Circa 1910.
Sugar bush camp. From left to right, Ernest Chadwick, Kendrick Shaw, Eliazar Shaw, Pearl Shaw and child, Myron Humes, and Lyman Humes. After-hours recreation, a friendly card game. Harrisville, NY. Circa 1911. Related story, here.
Sugaring camp of Edgar Mantle, neighbor of Warren Humes; they went back and forth as neighbors do. Harrisville, NY. Circa 1912.
Hiram and Eugene Cole’s sugar house, with wood supply, near the Oswegatchie River in the Town of Diana, NY. Note sled for skidding out sap with horses. Circa 1900.
Mert Mantle and Burton Humes at Forest Home. Using a two-man cross-cut to saw log. Harrisville, NY. Related story, here.
Farmers often supplemented their income in the winter by selling logs to the local sawmills. This unidentified teamster is preparing to take a sleigh load to the mill. Note the pole used to tighten the chains. Harrisville, NY. Circa 1900. Check out our story on Ross Young, a logger from Harrisville.
