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RE: Time Travelling in the Philadelphia Archives

in #photography • 7 years ago

Not so hidden @voronoi. For more on Knickerbocker and America's long addition to ice, see my post at PhillyHistory: https://www.phillyhistory.org/blog/index.php/2016/09/cracking-americas-ice-addiction/.

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     7 years ago 

    This ice addiction is pretty fascinating...

    "By the 1840s Philadelphians used 30 tons of ice—every day. Ice harvesters cut as much as they could, imported the rest and stored aggressively, anticipating warm winters and hot summers. Knickerbocker’s icehouses in Maine held 400,000 tons from the Kennebec and Penobscot Rivers."

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      Thanks for clicking and reading @voronoi!

      There's even more in a related post about the rise of the refrigerator: https://www.phillyhistory.org/blog/index.php/2016/09/the-iceman-leaveth/. Here's a tidbit: "In Philadelphia, ... Knickerbocker, had massive plants, one with 125 employees and storage capacity for a million tons throughout the city. With the help of 1,200 horses and mules, Knickerbocker drivers kept more than 500 delivery wagons mobile on the streets. At the start of the 20th century, America seemed to need every last one its 1,320 ice plants."

      Addiction, indeed! But it all came to a rapid end with electric refrigeration.

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