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Description
Collotype photograph from the book Summer days Down East, by M.F.Sweetser, published in Portland by the Chisholm Brothers in 1883, p. 21.
The Kennebec River had a large ice cutting industry during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Farmers and their horse teams were hired by large Boston or New York firms to supply ice to the metropolitan areas south of Maine.
About This Item
- Title: Ice houses, Richmond, ca. 1883
- Creator: M. F. Sweetser
- Creation Date: circa 1883
- Subject Date: circa 1883
- Location: Richmond, Sagadahoc County, ME
- Media: Ink on paper
- Dimensions: 12 cm x 19 cm
- Local Code: 917.41 Sw36s
- Object Type: Image
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- Kennebec River (Me.)--Collotypes--Photographs
- Richmond (Me.)--Description & views
- Rivers--Maine
- Ice harvesting industry--Maine--Richmond
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- Architecture, buildings & monuments
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- Nature, geography & animals
- Richmond (Me.)Kennebec River (Me.)
- Stone walls
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