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ISBN: 1421424592

ISBN13: 9781421424590

Before the Refrigerator: How We Used to Get Ice

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How increased access to ice--decades before refrigeration--transformed American life.

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans depended upon ice to stay cool and to keep their perishable foods fresh. Jonathan Rees tells the fascinating story of how people got ice before mechanical refrigeration came to the household. Drawing on newspapers, trade journals, and household advice books, Before the Refrigerator...

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