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Title
Ice
Tongs
Subject
Business and Labor
Ice industry
Ice
Equipment
Daily Life
Place
Sandusky (Ohio)
Erie County (Ohio)
Description
These
ice
tongs
used
to
carry
ice
harvested
from
Lake
Erie
to
ice
houses
,
ice
wagons
, and
customer's
homes
. They are
approximately
24
"
(60.96
cm)
tall
.
Before
refrigeration
,
ice
harvesting
was a
major
industry
in
Sandusky
. Its
location
on
Lake
Erie
and
Sandusky
Bay
made
ice
harvesting
a
fruitful
occupation
,
despite
the
danger
involved
.
Workers
often
suffered
broken
limbs
from
accidents
on the
ice
, and
some
drowned
after
falling
into the
open
channels
that
formed
where
the
ice
had been
cut
. As
many
as a
thousand
men
spent
their
winters
harvesting
ice
in
Sandusky
,
providing
a
means
of
cold
storage
throughout
the
year
.
Icehouses
,
where
harvested
ice
was
stored
, were
common
along
the
Lake
Erie
shoreline
.
Ice
was
shipped
throughout
the
region
, as
far
away
as
Cincinnati
. There were
about
25
ice
harvesting
businesses
in
Sandusky
,
shipping
200,000
tons
of
ice
per
season
to
southern
locations
.
Among
the
more
prominent
ice
business
in
Sandusky
were
Consumer's
Ice
,
Wagner
Ice
,
Sandusky
Lake
Ice
, and
People's
Ice
Company
.
Locally
,
ice
was
delivered
by
horse-drawn
ice
wagons
to
businesses
and
homes
that had
iceboxes
.
Date of Original
1890s
circa
Collection
Ice
Industry
Collection
Source
Historical object(s) or artifact(s)
Submitting Institution
Sandusky Library/Follett House Museum
Rights
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Type
StillImage
File Name
Om232_1026548_018.tif
Image Height
3008
Image Width
1960
File Size
505.718 KB
Format
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;
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