$65.00 CAD
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Rare early 1900s RPPC photo postcard showing men using horse-drawn blades to cut lake ice, starting the process of harvesting ice blocks.
Written on negative “Ice Harvest Hamilton Bay with plough-like saws the ice is deeply scored.”
On back ‘Photo by Ellis Studio, 9 James St. North, Hamilton.’
Based on ‘AZO’ photographic paper used, dates from 1904-1918.
Diagonal crease. Light smudging on back.
(Red text is an electronic watermark that is not physically part of the photo for sale)
Studio was owned by Harry A. Ellis. It seems to have been in business at that location c. 1914-15.
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