schoolalbums - Ice Harvesting


Cutting ice, Kennebec River, ca. 1895

Cutting ice, Kennebec River, ca. 1895
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Maine Historical Society

"Canalmen" are cutting ice, in 1889 on the Kennebec River.

Most of it was sent to New York. The workers planed the ice to get the dirt off, before they stored the ice.

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