RARE 1909 - RPPC Ice Harvesting cutting - Lockwood NY Real Photo Tioga County

Description: RARE Original Real Photo Postcard LOT Ice Harvest Lockwood, New York ca 1906 For offer - a very nice old real photograph cards! Fresh from a local estate in Upstate NY. Never offered on the market until now. Please see my other listings for more postcards. Vintage, Old, antique, Originals - NOT a Reproduction - Guaranteed !! Bottom of card says: "How would you like to be the ice-man?" Great rural winter scene on pond. Unused CYKO. In very good condition, with a light bend to card. Please see photos. If you collect 20th century Americana history, postcards, culture, unusual, occupational, horse and wagon work, etc., this is a nice lot for your paper or ephemera collection. Combine shipping on multiple bid wins! 746 Ice cutting was a winter occupation of icemen whose task it was to collect surface ice from lakes and rivers for storage in ice houses and sale as a pre-refrigeration cooling method. Kept insulated, the ice was preserved for all-year delivery to residential and commercial customers with ice boxes for cold food storage. 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 handsaw or a powered saw blade into long continuous strips and then cut into large individual blocks for transport by wagon back to the icehouse.[1] A large operation would have a crew of 75 and cut 1500 tons daily.[2] This occupation generally became obsolete with the development of mechanical refrigeration and air conditioning technology.[3] Ice cutting is still in use today for ice and snow sculpture events. A swing saw is used to get ice out of of a river for the Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival each year. A swing saw is also used to cut ice out from the frozen surface of the Songhua River.[4] Many Ice sculptures are made from the ice. Ice harvesting Main article: Ice cutting Ice has long been valued as a means of cooling. In 400 BC Iran, Persian engineers had already mastered the technique of storing ice in the middle of summer in the desert. The ice was brought in during the winters from nearby mountains in bulk amounts, and stored in specially designed, naturally cooled refrigerators, called yakhchal (meaning ice storage). This was a large underground space (up to 5000 m³) that had thick walls (at least two meters at the base) made of a special mortar called sārooj, composed of sand, clay, egg whites, lime, goat hair, and ash in specific proportions, and which was known to be resistant to heat transfer. This mixture was thought to be completely water impenetrable. The space often had access to a qanat, and often contained a system of windcatchers which could easily bring temperatures inside the space down to frigid levels on summer days. The ice was used to chill treats for royalty. There were thriving industries in 16th/17th century England whereby low lying areas along the Thames Estuary were flooded during the winter, and ice harvested in carts and stored inter-seasonally in insulated wooden houses as a provision to an icehouse often located in large country houses, and widely used to keep fish fresh when caught in distant waters. This was allegedly copied by an Englishman who had seen the same activity in China. Ice was imported into England from Norway on a considerable scale as early as 1823.[31] In the United States, the first cargo of ice was sent from New York City to Charleston, South Carolina in 1799,[31] and by the first half of the 19th century, ice harvesting had become big business. Frederic Tudor, who became known as the “Ice King,” worked on developing better insulation products for the long distance shipment of ice, especially to the tropics; this became known as the ice trade. Trieste sent ice to Egypt, Corfu, and Zante; Switzerland sent it to France; and Germany sometimes was supplied from Bavarian lakes.[31] Until recently,[when?] the Hungarian Parliament building used ice harvested in the winter from Lake Balaton for air conditioning. Ice houses were used to store ice formed in the winter, to make ice available all year long, and early refrigerators were known as iceboxes, because they had a block of ice in them. In many cities, it was not unusual to have a regular ice delivery service during the summer. The advent of artificial refrigeration technology has since made delivery of ice obsolete. Ice is still harvested for ice and snow sculpture events. For example, a swing saw is used to get ice for the Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival each year from the frozen surface of the Songhua River.[32] Commercial production Ice is now produced on an industrial scale, for uses including food storage and processing, chemical manufacturing, concrete mixing and curing, and consumer or packaged ice.[33] Most commercial icemakers produce three basic types of fragmentary ice: flake, tubular and plate, using a variety of techniques.[33] Large batch ice makers can produce up to 75 tons of ice per day.[34] Ice production is a large business; in 2002, there were 426 commercial ice-making companies in the United States, with a combined value of shipments of $595,487,000.[35] For small-scale ice production, many modern home refrigerators can also make ice with a built in icemaker, which will typically make ice cubes or crushed ice. Stand-alone icemaker units that make ice cubes are often called ice machines.

Price: 68 USD

Location: Rochester, New York

End Time: 2025-01-22T03:20:08.000Z

Shipping Cost: 3.95 USD