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ACCESSION NUMBER   976:0021:0329
CATEGORY   Manufacturing
TITLE   Lone Star Ice Plant
DESCRIPTION   Interior view of the Lone Star Ice Plant located at 1119 Blucher Street in Corpus Christi, Texas. Seven men in oil-covered work clothes, known as the engine room gang, stand in the center of a large, dimly-lit warehouse-like structure owned by Arthur, Jasper, and Julius Blucher. Note the Corliss engine head on the left and the five-gallon can of Gargoyle Mobiloil Arctic.
SUBJECT   Ice industry. (lcsh)
Icehouses. (lctgm)
Laborers. (lctgm)
Men. (lcsh)
United States--Texas--Corpus Christi. (lcsh)