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American Ice Company delivery wagon in Brooklyn circa 1900 when people were using 4 million tons of ice each year. An article in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle from July of 1872 details the uses of ice for everything from cooling down “mint juleps, brandy smashes and claret punches” at the saloon, to preserving meat in the butcher shops and preserving bodies at the morgues. Most of the ice brought in the city was natural ice from the Hudson and rivers in Maine. Brooklyn Image, Horse Drawn Wagon, Clinton Hill, Photo U, Ice Cream Truck, Photos Of The Week, Historical Society, Photo Archive, Historia

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American Ice Company delivery wagon in Brooklyn circa 1900 when people were using 4 million tons of ice each year. An article in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle from July of 1872 details the uses of ice for everything from cooling down “mint juleps, brandy smashes and claret punches” at the saloon, to preserving meat in the butcher shops and preserving bodies at the morgues. Most of the ice brought in the city was natural ice from the Hudson and rivers in Maine.