Knickerbocker Co. cutting ice. Rockland Lake – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic print captures Knickerbocker Co. cutting ice. Rockland Lake in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Knickerbocker Co. cutting ice. Rockland Lake
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Men work on the frozen surface of Rockland Lake in Rockland County, New York, where the Knickerbocker Company cut winter ice for sale. Blocks were sawn from the lake, hauled to shore, and stored in insulated icehouses before being shipped by boat to New York City, where ice supplied homes, hotels, and markets before mechanical refrigeration existed. The record dates the image to about 1846 and links it to the Endicott firm, though that attribution is unverified, so the picture is best read as a view of the trade in its period.
| Created / published | c1846 Mar. 27. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Notes | 647 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Endicott, G. & W. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,968 × 1,500 px · prints to 7 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109862 |
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