Item 75279 - Ice Harvesting, Kennebec River, ca. 1895
- Item 75279 - Ice Harvesting, Kennebec River, ca. 1895
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- Item 75279
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Image Info A view of the Consolidated Ice Company's ice house shows men working with blocks of ice along the Kennebec River near Bowdoinham about 1895.
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The workers use splitting forks and pick poles to line up the blocks that to be lifted by the steam hoist conveyor belts into the ice house.