There was a time when tepid was the only temperature you could order a drink in. When did that change? When could we first enjoy cold ones, ones being beer, butter, or our bedroom? How did we conquer heat and come to survive summer sitting in our personal ice boxes? Let us explore the history of the ice trade, or how humanity learned to move cold from one place to another.
#history #ice #america #icecream #trader #trade #summer
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Media Courtesy of Wikimedia and Commons and RU-vid Music Library
Further Reading:
Kistler, Linda H., et al. “PLANNING AND CONTROL IN THE 19th CENTURY ICE TRADE.” The Accounting Historians Journal, vol. 11, no. 1, 1984, pp. 19-30. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40697793. Accessed 3 May 2024.
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