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Oscar Mayer Ice Making
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Two men dressed in long, white jackets and caps use ice hooks to pull blocks of ice from the metal molds in the foreground. A line of ice bricks rests on the floor behind them.
circa 1940-1949
Korling, Torkel
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W014C7N
WHi 135185
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