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Description
Photograph of large cakes of ice for the "icing car" (cargo?) outside of the orange groves in Puente Hills, ca.1920-1930. At left, a line of workmen move rectangular blocks of ice along an elevated platform, the foremost man with a set of plier-like ice-hooks. To the right, the roof of freight cars can be seen, connected to the platform by gangplanks.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photoprints, b&w 21 x 26 cm. photographic prints photographs
Agriculture--Crops--Citrus--Processing--Shipping Transportation--Railroads--General Citrus fruit industry Railroads Refrigerator cars Ice Railroad features
Time Period
circa 1920/1930
Place
California Los Angeles Puente Hills USA
Source
35603; 43688 [Accession number] 84-1-1773 [Microfiche number] CHS-35603; CHS-43688 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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