Ice Harvesting Sampler DISTRIBUTION MASTER

Date1991

Can DescriptionsDISTRIBUTION MASTER. // 1994 NHF compilation with narration of archival ice harvesting footage from several collections that date 1920s-1940s. 'This compilation shows newsreel and amateur footage of ice harvesting on rivers and lakes for commercial and private use...close-ups record the use of specialized hand tools as well as gasoline-powered equipment..ice-house interiors with massive ice blocks being maneuvered at high speed, and horse teams and wagons delivering ice to brownstones in Boston.' // Contains: a. Sebago Ice Co. Cutting on Long Pond, Everett Johnson Collection, acc.0135/0136; b. Ice Cutting East Andover, and Work Horse Parade, Robert C. Taylor Collection, acc.0724; c. Hinckley School for Boys Ice Harvest, Good Will-Hinckley Collection, acc.1202.0001 or 1060.0001?; d. Ice Cutting on Upper Hadlock Pond, Herbert Kenney Collection, acc.0162.0001; e. Harvest Bumper Ice Crop, National Archives Collection, acc.0134; Narration by Philip Whitney, president of the New England Tool Collectors Association; 'bonus' sixth segment from Archie Stewart Collection, acc.1108, Reel 27. // For distribution duplication only.