Ice Harvesting Crew

As early as 1852, crews like this one began harvesting ice on Sandusky Bay. Large scale ice harvesting was so successful that E. E. Upp of Sandusky, Ohio, built a 10,000-ton capacity icehouse in 1868. Twenty dealers were doing business on Sandusky Bay by 1886, in addition to local owners of fisheries, breweries, and hotels, who harvested their own ice