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Domestic production and sales were the largest single market source for ice in America and Europe. From the 1850s onwards ice cutting took on large-scale industrial proportions in
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Ice harvesting generally involved waiting until approximately a foot of ice had built up on the water surface in the winter. The ice would then be cut with either a
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municipality alone employing 1,000 men and exporting 95,000 tons in 1900, at a time when Norway's combined ice export at 500,000 tons stood as the world's largest.
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existed in the 19th and early 20th centuries, until mechanical refrigeration displaced it. Due to its harvesting and trade, ice was considered a "crop".
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surface could be flooded to produce a thicker layer of ice. A large operation would have a crew of 75 and cut 1500 tons daily.
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during the 19th century. It started in the United States around 1800, and spread to Scandinavia around 1820, by which
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had 1,300 workers exporting 125,000 tons in 1895–96, while the Oslo Fjord was the main European export region with
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during warm weather, either on the farm or for delivery to residential and commercial customers with
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had over 1500 ice delivery wagons and Americans consumed over 5 million tons of ice annually.
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America's Icemen: An Illustrative History of the United States Natural Ice Industry 1665-1925
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blade into long continuous strips and then cut into large individual blocks for transport by
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pudsandlosers.blogspot.com, Ice Palace 2 - Cutting Ice, Saturday, January 31, 2009
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each year. A swing saw is also used to cut ice out from the frozen surface of the
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KK.org Amish Homebuilt gas powered ice cutter to make ice for non-electric icebox
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Ice cutting was a considerable export industry for northern countries in
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on top of the ice slows freezing, it could be scraped off and piled in
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are made from the ice harvested this way. In some countries at high
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and use or sale as a cooling method. Rare today, it was common (see
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Cutting of ice in winter that is stored for cooling in summer
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HMdb.org THE HISTORICAL MARKER DATABASE, Ice Harvesting
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blueflower.tripod.com Homebuilt gas powered ice cutter
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The Ice Crop: How to Harvest, Store, Ship and Use Ice
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Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival
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Ice harvesting

Toronto
Ontario
Pennsylvania
winter
ice
ice houses
ice trade
refrigeration
air conditioning
farmers
icemen
cold food storage
ice boxes
ice trade
handsaw
saw
wagon
ice house
snow
windrows
snowy
Scandinavia
North America
Norway
England
Europe
Kingdom of Kongo
Egypt

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