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“Ice Cutting at Spy Pond,” West Cambridge,Massachusetts
From Gleason’s Pictorial Drawing-room
Companion, February 18, 1854
Courtesy of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities |
Ice Box
From the Montgomery Ward & Co. Catalogue,
Spring and Summer 1895 |
H. P. Hood Milk Car No. 5,Derry,
New Hampshire, circa 1885
Courtesy of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
H. P. Hood’s railroad car used ice in transporting milk from
Derry, New Hampshire, to Boston. Ice-cooled milk kept
fresher as it traveled to the city, where it could be delivered
to customers daily. |
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| KEEP IT COOL |
| Cooling and refrigeration
extended the shelf life of milk
products. Supplied by ice men,
home ice boxes in the late 1800s
and early 1900s provided a way
to keep food cold. Farmers, some
dairies, and ice dealers cut ice
from frozen lakes and ponds in the
winter. Packed in sawdust in an ice
house, winter ice could be used to
cool milk cans and ice boxes, even
in the summer months. |
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“Milk Bottles”
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post by
Stevan Dohanos, January 8, 1944
Courtesy of Maureen Glasier
Sometimes cold — at least too much of it — wasn’t a good
thing. Sitting for too long exposed on a porch in the
winter, the milk would freeze and the cream would expand
up out of the bottle in a frozen column, pushing the cap
with it. |
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