A look into the photographic history of maple sugaring.
A Native American woman taps a maple tree to gather its sap. [ca. 1908]
A young boy gathers sap from a sugar maple tree on the North Bridgewater, Vermont, farm of Frank H. Shurtleff in April 1940.
Two photos show men gathering and processing maple syrup. [ca. 1900]
Waitsfield, Vermont, Farmer Walter M. Gaylord fires his evaporator during the process of boiling down the sap for maple syrup in March 1940.
A man makes maple syrup the “old fashioned way” in this photo from around 1906.
This photograph from April 1940 shows the pipeline through which the sap ran to the sugar shack at Walter Gaylord’s farm in Waitsfield, Vermont.
A retired farmer and a store clerk chat outside a general store that advertises maple sugar and syrup for sale in West Danville, Vermont, in July 1942.
Photos courtesy of the Library of Congress