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Some 100 years ago, natural ice harvesting & trade was a major global industry
- DrNosferatu 4y agoThe ice trade, also known as the frozen water trade, was a 19th-century and early-20th-century industry, centering on the east coast of the United States and Norway, involving the large-scale harvesting, transport and sale of natural ice, and later the making and sale of artificial ice, for domestic consumption and commercial purposes.