Workers use a cable boom and grapple to load logs onto a truck for the Triangle Lumber Company mill in Onchiota. Triangle Lumber Company was owned by James LaTour. Onchiota, NY. Circa 1960 to 1970. Photo donated by Jill McKenty.
Lumberjack Philip Jackson operating a 1978 John Deere 440C skidder. In the foreground is Jack Pulsifer. The skidder is on top of a pile of large, soft maple logs cut close to the Boquet River. Spring 2016. Elizabethtown, NY. Courtesy of Philip N. Jackson IV. Jackson says he’s been logging for about 66 years. Listen […]
A large wall of muskrat pelts trapped by Roy Johnson. Johnson was known as the “preacher-trapper” because he worked as both. Circa 1979. Philadelphia, NY. Courtesy of Dave Johnson. Listen to Dave Johnson on his father’s trapping in the audio clip.
Roy C. Johnson, who was known as the “preacher-trapper” because those were his two occupations, displaying pelts he trapped. Circa 1960. Hamlet of Brier Hill in Morristown, NY. Courtesy of Dave Johnson.
Roy C. Johnson, who was both a preacher and a trapper, posing in front of a rack of pelts, including fox, coyote, raccoon, mink, and muskrat. Circa 1970. Philadelphia, NY. Courtesy of Dave Johnson.
The “preacher-trapper” Roy C. Johnson, so-called because those were his two jobs, posing with the pelts of foxes he trapped. Circa 1960. Morristown, NY. Courtesy of Dave Johnson.
Roy C. Johnson, who was known as the “preacher-trapper” because those were his two occupations, posing in front of a rack of pelts he trapped. Included are fox, coyote, raccoon, mink, and muskrat. Early 1970s. Philadelphia, NY. Courtesy of Dave Johnson.
Roy Johnson, who made his living as both a preacher and a trapper, displaying a rare red coyote pelt outside the First Congregational Church. Mid-1960s. Morristown, NY. Courtesy of Dave Johnson.
A lumber crew posing at their camp. 1923. Tupper Lake, NY. Photo courtesy of the Goff-Nelson Memorial Library.
Unidentified fire warden on the top of a fire tower. Circa 1920s. Southeastern Adirondacks in the Newcomb area of NYS. Photo courtesy of Jon Kopp.
