Ice Company Petitions President Peterson
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Title
Ice Company Petitions President Peterson
Date
May 25, 1901
Creator
The Triumph Ice Machine Company
Description
During the late nineteenth century New England merchants dominated the global ice trade, shipping frozen water around the globe. The city of Montevallo received rail shipments of naturally harvested ice from northern firms through the port of Mobile, but an increasing number of industrial ice plants emerged across the American south during the first decade of the twentieth century. Cincinnati's Triumph Ice Machine Company hoped A.G.I.S. President Francis Peterson would purchase equipment for ice production in 1901. By 1913 the Montevallo Ice & Light Company announced plans to build a 10-ton ice making plant with machinery from York Manufacturing Company in Pennsylvania. At the time of the announcement commercially produced ice was about to overtake the volume of naturally harvested ice in the United States.
Language
en-US
Coverage
1896-1914
Rights
University of Montevallo
Subject
Ice in Montevallo
Contributor
John Bawden
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Paper
Physical Dimensions
8.5" x 11" Letter
Files
Collection
Citation
The Triumph Ice Machine Company, “Ice Company Petitions President Peterson,” Archiving Montevallo, accessed May 16, 2024, https://carmichaeldigitalprojects.org/archivingmontevallo/items/show/11.