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People's Ice Company Stock Certificate (Boca, GT Brown Lith.) [199751]

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People's Ice Company Stock Certificate (Boca, GT Brown Lith.) [199751]
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Inc. June 1875. No. 111, issued for 300 shares to LH Harvey in 1877. Signed by president John Cashin and secretary John Sweeney. Punch cancelled signatures. Nice printing job by African American lithographer G.T. Brown of San Francisco. Vignette of a lake with ice houses at the top left. Ice was a valuable commodity in the 1870's. It was used in the mines at Virginia City as the underground temperatures were as high as 140 degrees. Ice was also used to refrigerate rail cars to ship California produce to the east. The lakes near Truckee and Donner Pass would freeze over in the winters and the ice was cut into blocks and stored in the icehouse. Nine different ice companies operated at Boca alone.
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Date: 1877
Country (if not USA):
State: California
City: Boca
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