Ice !

Making and using ice, without leaving behind any ecological footprint, for centuries was not only a luxury to the rich but also a very clever and sustainable way of survival we should not forget and try to remember with great respect. 

Walter Klemm (1883-1957)

Besides cooling wine in summer, fishmongers and bakeries and probably many more enterprises and industries depended on harvesting and storing ice. Ice that lasted as long as a year in cleverly constructed isolated cellars. 

Karl Friedrich Zähringer (Sw.) (1886-1933) "Eisbrecher"

Giovanni Giacometti (It.) 1868-1933

It's hard to imagine when we open our refrigerator door the activities shown by these artists were once a common sight not a century ago. As these pictures show: in Italy, Holland, Germany and Switserland.

Harvesting ice in Amsterdam 1917

If readers have knowledge of more examples of icemaking and harvesting please send them for sharing.

  Bernard Rice (Br.) (1900-1998), thank you Charles.

(2003) Clara Lieu (US)

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Speaking of the wonderful and versatile Walter Klemm (read here) I found two more prints that should have been in the recent Fanny Psicha posting. But along this self educational path I follow and the information on the Internet expanding  every day, these things happen. For following readers I show them here and also add them to the original posting for new readers.