The front page of the December 1, 1910 Seneca County Courier Journal (Seneca Falls NY) carried this advertisement.  

T. W. Kinser did provide workers for various Barge Canal projects, as evidenced by this early 20th century court case.

Below is part of an undated group photo  from the CSNY collection.  One exciting detail for me is the annotation, made at an unknown time by an unknown hand.  For someone doing genealogical work on the Nugent and Laraway families, this would be golden.

In this section of the image cleaned up by Bill Hecht are more exciting details:  the hand tools.  Judging from the location, I’d surmise this crew was building a wooden boat of some sort.  The smiling man to the left is holding a caulking mallet and chisel, used to pack oakum into seams in planking.  The men on either side of the one with a cigarette in his mouth are holding boring braces.  

He holds a small sledge hammer, 

and here are an adze and at the top another brace.

Here in the foreground mid-bottom is a two-person crosscut saw.

Many thanks to Bill Hecht for using his tools to clean up these photos in the CSNY collection.

I’d love to know if readers have other names for these tools.