Camp of Adirondack log drivers holding logging tools, with tents and kitchen wagon in the background. Caption under photo reads: Camp of Adirondack River Drivers. Traveling kitchen, or cook-shanty in background. Circa 1890-1900. In the Adirondacks. F.A. Van Sant was the photographer. Originally in History of the lumber industry in the state of New York, […]
Loggers and skid horses posing for a shot at the head of the log skidway where logs would beloaded onto bobsleds. Pictured from left: Smith Veeley, Leo Bradley, Charlie Tyrell, Smith Wilson, Jud Delorm. Will Bradley on far right with saw. 1903. Essex County.
Logs on the river in Willsboro, NY. C: Logs coming over the dam at Willsboro, with flume box in foreground, which directed water into a turbine inside a mill or factory. On the cliff above is the town of Willsboro. Date Unknown. Willsboro, NY.
Caption on photo: “Largest load of pulp to come down the mountain,” taken in front of Bert Lyon’s barber shop. Man on top of the load is Nathan Taylor. Circa 1900-1910. Keene, NY. Donated by Julia Warner Lesser. Note: this entire load is being drawn by just a two-horse team.
Lunchbreak in the woods for working loggers at Chapel Pond. Horse in the background is getting lunch, too, from a feeding bag tied around his neck. 1905. Chapel Pond in Keene, NY. Names from left to right, sitting on ground: Lee Garfield, Frank Delorme, child Clifford Delorme, Dwight Warren, Bogey Sprague, Henry Delorme, Jed Delorme. […]
Caption under photo reads: Adirondack Log Drivers. The halt at noon – coffee and baked beans. Jay, NY, circa 1890-1900. Originally in History of the lumber industry in the state of New York, by William H. Fox Forest, Fish & Game Commission report, 1900.
“Caught napping,” a photo by F.A.Van Sant, picturing a lumberman laying on his back next to a log flume, which was used to transport pulp logs down to the river. 1900. Jay, NY. Photo scanned from a print in History of the lumber industry in the state of New York, by William H. Fox Forest, […]
Load of cut logs on bobsled, harvested by the Leo Spellman Company, traveling to Gates sawmill. “Black Pine” written on photograph. January 23, 1901. Essex County.
Logging drivers, pikes in hand, at the big boom (a barrier set up to stop logs on a river) in Glens Falls on the Hudson River. Circa 1890s. Glens Falls, NY.
Log yard in Keene, NY. Log yard at the Pete Liberty lumber camp, where logs were stacked at the edge of the Ausable River to await the “spring break-up,” when the ice melted and the logs could be driven downriver. Circa 1890-1900. Keene, NY on the Ausable River, at a spot called Clifford Brook. (Note: […]
