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Cutting Ice

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Description: View from ice of men from the CCC group at Camp Petenwell cutting ice. Three men stand on the ice on the right. A steep bank surrounds the icy water. Men a...
Photograph

Ice Cutters

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Description: A large group of ice cutters posing for a portrait. They are holding a variety of implements and are sitting and standing on blocks of ice. Fence and build...
Book or Pamphlet

United Refrigerator & Ice Machine Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1915
Description: Front cover featuring ten inset color illustrations of refrigerating machinery, refrigerators and store fixtures in use in the home and in shops.
Photograph

Ice Harvesting Machine

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Description: A man stands near an ice harvesting machine on a lake. A label on the machine reads: "Wisconsin." There is open water behind him, and in the far background...
Photograph

Conklin Ice House Employees

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of Conklin Ice House employees posing on a loading dock in front of the ice house on Lake Mendota. Wagons are parked on the left and...
Photograph

Conklin Ice House

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Description: Conklin Ice House on Lake Mendota. A man is standing in the snow-covered yard in the foreground near a sleigh, and a carriage with a sign painted on the si...
Photograph

Harvesting Ice

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Description: View across ice towards a group of men, employees of the Conklin Ice House, which is in the distance, guiding horses pulling ice cutters. The horses are we...
Photograph

Conklin Ice House

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of men posing on horse-drawn wagons parked in front of the Conklin Ice House. In the background on the right is Lake Mendota.
Photograph

Harvesting Ice on Lake Mendota

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Description: View across ice on Lake Mendota towards men using long poles to maneuver ice up to the conveyor belt to the Conklin Ice House.
Postcard

Filling an Ice House

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Description: Caption reads: "Filling an ice house on Lake Wingra--Wisconsin." A large scaffold holds up the conveyor into the ice house, and a group of men are standing...
Photograph

Ice Delivery Truck

Date: 03 10 1928
Description: View across street towards a man sitting in the driver's seat of an ice delivery truck. There is a large house in the background.
Photograph

Oscar Mayer Loading Dock

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Description: Men wearing overalls, jackets, hats, and gloves are pushing carts of wooden and cardboard crates which read: "Oscar Mayer, Approved, Fine Foods since 1883,...
Photograph

Delivering Ice

Date: 02 17 1917
Description: Four horses are pulling the flat bed wagon loaded with ice bricks. One of the men is holding the reins to the horses, and the other man is standing with hi...
Postcard

Ice House

Date: 06 24 1914
Description: Handwriting on front reads: "Front View of Ice House." A group of men and women view the destruction as the result of a tornado that swept through the nort...

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