How to make an ice house

The ice trade
Originally published in Gleason’s Drawing Room Companion, 1852, US; reproduced in Cummings “the Ice Trade”, California, 1949

With the temperature expected to reach 94 degrees today in Cleveland, Ohio, this introduction of how to make an ice house seems timely and comes courtesy of “The New England Farmer; A Monthly Journal devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture and their Kindred Arts & Sciences, Volume VII.”

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