Before the Refrigerator: How We Used to Get Ice

Before the Refrigerator: How We Used to Get Ice

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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" explains how Americans built a complex system to harvest, store, and transport ice to everyone who wanted it. Paperback. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. 121 pages.