Vargas Brothers Ice Harvesting

Name/Title

Vargas Brothers Ice Harvesting

Entry/Object ID

2016.157.13

Description

Black and white photograph of the Vargas Brothers Ice Company harvesting at ice at Sylvia's Pond in the winter of 1937. Handwritten on back: "Jan 1937. As per Joe Gordon. Wielding Saws almost as big as themselves, Henry Perkins (left), high school student playing hooky for the day, and Bill Bunnell cut out cakes of ice 18'x9' for floating down to the Ice house. The temperature stands at 20 degrees F but the boys keep warm with their exertions."

Collection

Lighthouse Collection

Made/Created

Date made

1910 - 1937