North Country At Work

Worker in the Cabot Wollastonite White Pigments Division plant, owned by the Cabot Carbon Company. Willsboro, New York. Circa 1940s. Photographer is Bernie A. Degnan, Glens Falls.

Worker in the switch breaker room of the Cabot Wollastonite White Pigments Division plant, owned by the Cabot Carbon Company. Willsboro, New York. Circa 1940s. Photographer is Bernie A. Degnan, Glens Falls.

Cabot Wollastonite White Pigments Division plant was owned by the Cabot Carbon Company. Pictured are railroad tracks and ore cars, a worker checking barrels, and a stone elevator. Willsboro, New York. Circa 1940s. Photographer is Bernie A. Degnan, Glens Falls.

Worker inside the Cabot Carbon Company’s Wollastonite White Pigments Division plant in Willsboro, New York. The plant mined wollastonite ore, which was ground and made into white pigment. Circa 1940s. Willsboro, New York. Photographer is Bernie A. Degnan, Glens Falls.

The Cabot Wollastonite White Pigments Division plant was owned by the Cabot Carbon Company, and mined wollastonite ore, which was ground and made into white pigment. A man stands in front of the plant and railroad tracks that run directly alongside the plant. Engine #4013 was owned by the Delaware & Hudson Railway. Circa 1950s. […]

The Boynton & McNally Crusher Plant used a stationary steam engine,  fed by a water pipe (seen on left of photo). Bucket elevator in the center of photo, lifted rocks into hopper, then fed rocks down into a stone crusher. 1912. Elizabethtown, NY.

Caption on photo reads: Fisher Hill Mine 500 H.P. Nordbery Man and Material Hoist. Inside the mines owned and operated by Witherbees, Sherman, & Company until 1939; then leased to and operated by Republic Steel until 1971. Circa 1940s. Mineville in the Town of Moriah, NY.

Lumber yard outside of Tupper Lake. C: Stacks of lumber on either side of railroad tracks in a lumber yard on the Raquette Pond on Raquette River, near Tupper Lake. The pond is full of logs, and the sawmill is in the background on the left. Photo caption says: Raquette Pond, on Raquette River. Near […]

Written on photo: Frank Colby and Leslie Lawrence drawing lumber cut and sawed at Euba Mills enroute to Wadhams Mills – loads of hemlock planks were used to plank the Wadhams Mills Dam. Note the poles atop of the loads – they were used to tension the chains or ropes holding the load together. Also, […]

Furniture workshop in Wadhams Mills, NY. C: Bert or Henry Swan working in the Henry Swan furniture shop in Wadhams Mills, NY. Circa  1880-1900. Donated by Joseph Kozma.