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The Wenham Lake Ice Company, operating out of Wenham Lake in Wenham, Massachusetts, USA, harvested ice and exported it all around the world before the advent of factory-made ice. Wenham-lake ice was awarded a royal warrant from Queen Victoria.

The company was founded by Frederic Tudor.

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The company opened a storefront in the Strand, London in the summer 1844. Every day workers would put a large block of ice in the window, and none of the typical neighborhood residents had ever seen a block of ice anywhere before. As a gimmick, the workers would put a newspaper on the other side of the block of ice so that passers-by could read the print through the ice, from outside the store looking into the window.^[1]

References

^ Bryson, Bill (2010). At Home: A Short History of Private Life. Great Britain: Doubleday. pp. 71–73. ISBN 978-0-7679-1938-8.

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[1] Bryson, Bill (2010). At Home: A Short History of Private Life. Great Britain: Doubleday. pp. 71–73. ISBN 978-0-7679-1938-8.

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-The company opened a storefront in the [[Strand, London]] in the summer 1844.  Every day workers would put a large block of ice in the window, and none of the typical neighborhood residents had ever seen a block of ice anywhere before.  As a gimmick, the workers would put a newspaper on the other side of the block of ice so that passerbys could read the print through the ice, from outside the store looking into the window.<ref>{{cite book|last=Bryson|first=Bill|authorlink=Bill Bryson|title=[[At Home: A Short History of Private Life]]|year=2010|publisher=[[Doubleday]]|location=Great Britain|isbn=978-0-7679-1938-8|pages=71–73}}</ref>
+The company opened a storefront in the [[Strand, London]] in the summer 1844.  Every day workers would put a large block of ice in the window, and none of the typical neighborhood residents had ever seen a block of ice anywhere before.  As a gimmick, the workers would put a newspaper on the other side of the block of ice so that passers-by could read the print through the ice, from outside the store looking into the window.<ref>{{cite book|last=Bryson|first=Bill|authorlink=Bill Bryson|title=[[At Home: A Short History of Private Life]]|year=2010|publisher=[[Doubleday]]|location=Great Britain|isbn=978-0-7679-1938-8|pages=71–73}}</ref>
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