Photos from: Woody Island's lucrative Alaska export: Ice




Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, General Photograph File, AMRC-b77-107-25

Woody Island residents built a sawmill, similar to this one in Copper Center, to make sawdust to insulate ice before they sent it via steamship to rich Californians after the Gold Rush of 1848.



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