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| Picture No | 11982460 |
| Date | 1875 |
| Description | Transferring ice to storehouse, Hudson River 1875 |
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The storehouse buildings are composed of wood with double walls and were very rough looking, in the summer the ice is loaded into barges towed down stream to New York, delivered there from directly into ice carts at the docks and then distributed to customers at the doors.
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| Source | Engraving in in 'Scientific American', 27 March 1875, page 38 |
| Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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