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Cutting ice in Carthage

Cutting ice during Carthage, NY ice harvest. 1947. Carthage Ice Harvest Collection donated by Eleanor Query, whose father, Francis George Query, is pictured in many of the photos.

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Cutting ice on a lake in the Adirondacks
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