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Peoples Ice Company Stock Certificate, Boca, CA 1877

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Peoples Ice Company Stock Certificate, Boca, CA 1877
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This item SOLD at 2018 Jun 25 @ 10:37UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Inc. June, 1875. Dateline San Francisco, May 26, 1877. No. 105, issued for 45 shares to Thompson. Signed by the president, John Cashin, and secretary Sweeney. Star cancels thru signatures, as usual. Vignette of ice house on lake by African-American lithographer Grafton T. Brown. Folds, creases, stub still attached on the left. Ice was a valuable commodity in the 1870’s. It was used in the mines at Virginia City as the underground temperatures were stifling. 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 ice house. Nine different ice companies operated at Boca alone. Date: Location: Boca , California HWAC# 60407