Description: This 4 by 5.5-inch (10.16 by 13.97 cm) portrait of brewer Felix Steinle appeared in A Portrait and Biographical Record of Allen and Van Wert Counties, Ohio, published by A. W. Bowen of Chicago in 1896. The volume is 909 pages long and measures 8 by 10.5 inches (20.32 by 26.67 cm). Steinle was born in 1847 in Baden, Germany, where he learned the beer brewer's trade. After coming to the United States in 1868, he lived in Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Cincinnati. In the late 1870s, he established the Fremont Brewing Company. In 1883, he purchased the Delphos Brewing Company in Delphos. He reorganized and purchased new equipment to increase the brewery's output and produce ice. In 1896, the company produced 7,000 barrels of beer and 3,600 tons of ice. During Prohibition, the company stopped producing beer, but sold ice and non-alcoholic beverages. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om580_876000_001
Subjects: Business and Labor; Immigration and Ethnic Heritage; Brewing industry; Ice industry
Places: Delphos (Ohio); Allen County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated to the 1910s, this photograph shows an ice wagon from the Crystal Ice Manufacturing & Cold Storage Company in Columbus, Ohio, on West Broad Street. In 1923, the company's name changed to City Ice and Fuel, and in 1953 City Products Corporation. On April 20, 1978, Spaghetti Warehouse opened the building as a dine-in restaurant and still resides there today at 397 West Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08515
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Economy--Business; Ice industry
 

Description: George Snyder holding a motorcycle owned by the Crystal Ice Company. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08516
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development; Ice industry
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the Miami and Erie Canal through Shelby County, between stations 7206 and 7332. Roads, properties, bridges, railways and other landmarks along the route are noted, including Parnpel's Ice Pond. The map was created under the direction of the members of the Canal Commission of the state of Ohio and approved by the Chief Engineer of the Department of Public Works (variously referred to as the Board of Public Works and the Division of Public Works). Construction on the Miami and Erie Canal took place between 1825 and 1845, and the finished route connected Cincinnati and Toledo, as well as the Ohio River with Lake Erie. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: BV4926_007
Subjects: Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio; Bridges; Railroads; Ice industry;
Places: Shelby County (Ohio)
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the Miami and Erie Canal through Butler County, between stations 11386 and 11630. Roads, properties, bridges, railways and other landmarks along the route are noted, including Campbell's Ice Pond. The map was created under the direction of the members of the Canal Commission of the state of Ohio and approved by the Chief Engineer of the Department of Public Works (variously referred to as the Board of Public Works and the Division of Public Works). Construction on the Miami and Erie Canal took place between 1825 and 1845, and the finished route connected Cincinnati and Toledo, as well as the Ohio River with Lake Erie. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: BV4929_008
Subjects: Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio; Bridges; Railroads; Ice industry
Places: Butler County (Ohio)
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the Miami and Erie Canal through Butler County, between stations 10710 and 10803. Roads, properties and other landmarks along the route are noted, including Russell's Lake and a large ice pond. The map was created under the direction of the members of the Canal Commission of the state of Ohio and approved by the Chief Engineer of the Department of Public Works (variously referred to as the Board of Public Works and the Division of Public Works). Construction on the Miami and Erie Canal took place between 1825 and 1845, and the finished route connected Cincinnati and Toledo, as well as the Ohio River with Lake Erie. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: BV4929_002
Subjects: Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio; Ice industry
Places: Butler County (Ohio)
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the Miami and Erie Canal through Butler County, between stations 11630 and 11774. Roads, properties, bridges, railways and other landmarks along the route are noted, including numerous ice ponds. The map was created under the direction of the members of the Canal Commission of the state of Ohio and approved by the Chief Engineer of the Department of Public Works (variously referred to as the Board of Public Works and the Division of Public Works). Construction on the Miami and Erie Canal took place between 1825 and 1845, and the finished route connected Cincinnati and Toledo, as well as the Ohio River with Lake Erie. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: BV4929_009
Subjects: Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio; Bridges; Railroads; Ice industry
Places: Butler County (Ohio)
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the Miami and Erie Canal through Butler County, between stations 10960 and 11125, and past a small community called LeSourdsville. Roads, properties, bridges, locks, railways and other landmarks along the route are noted, including numerous ice ponds, Gregory's Creek and the Miami River. The map was created under the direction of the members of the Canal Commission of the state of Ohio and approved by the Chief Engineer of the Department of Public Works (variously referred to as the Board of Public Works and the Division of Public Works). Construction on the Miami and Erie Canal took place between 1825 and 1845, and the finished route connected Cincinnati and Toledo, as well as the Ohio River with Lake Erie. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: BV4929_004
Subjects: Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio; Bridges; Rivers--Ohio; Railroads; Ice industry
Places: Butler County (Ohio)
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the Miami and Erie Canal through Cincinnati, between stations 88 and 170. Roads, properties and other landmarks are noted, including the House of Refuge Ice Pond. The map was created under the direction of the members of the Canal Commission of the state of Ohio and approved by the Chief Engineer of the Department of Public Works (variously referred to as the Board of Public Works and the Division of Public Works). Construction on the Miami and Erie Canal took place between 1825 and 1845, and the finished route connected Cincinnati and Toledo, as well as the Ohio River with Lake Erie. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: BV4930_008
Subjects: Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio; Ice industry;
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of two identified men at an ice plant in Ohio. The photograph is a part of the Ohio Federal Writers' Projects of the Works Progress Administration. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F03_046_001
Subjects: Works Progress Administration; Ohio Federal Writers' Project; Industry; Photographs; Ice plant
Places: Ohio