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An ice pick from the W. O. Strout & Co.

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An ice pick from the J. Leo Comeau collection of ice handling tools.

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A wood, red-painted ice chipper/axe with a steel blade used at the Maynard Ice & Coal Company.

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Ice picks were a necessary item before electric refrigeration. Two picks from Maynard Ice Co., one from Strout.

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These were the property of J. Leo Comeau, who was the last of the icemen to make deliveries in town. He delivered ice right up to the day he was stricken in May 1965. He used the apron when carrying the ice.

In 1849 when the Marlboro Branch of…