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2. Icebox - Wikipedia

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   Icebox. An icebox (also called a cold closet) is a compact non-mechanical refrigerator which was a common early-twentieth-century kitchen appliance before the development of safely powered refrigeration devices. Before the development of electric refrigerators, iceboxes were referred to by the public as "refrigerators".

3. Cooling board - Wikipedia

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   Cooling board. A cooling board was a perforated wooden platform on which a dead body would be temporarily stored and prepared for a funeral. Ice was placed beneath it to keep the body chilled, slowing the decomposition process. Holes in the cooling board, which could be made of cane latticework rather than a solid wooden plank, allowed blood ...

4. Barclay Manufacturing Company - Wikipedia

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   Barclay and Manoil lead toy soldiers and figures, including motorcycle, canons and mortars. Barclay Manufacturing was formed by Leon Donze and Michael Levy in about 1922. [ 1]. The name of the company came from Barclay Street in Hoboken, New Jersey. During the 1930s, the company was later based in North Bergen, New Jersey.

5. 10 Vintage Metal Lunch Boxes You Wish You Still Had - AOL

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   Click here to see 10 Vintage Metal Lunch Boxes Worth Big Bucks. In 1950, a company called Aladdin produced the first true lunch boxes of the era, decorating plain metal boxes with stamped pictures ...

6. Ice cutting - Wikipedia

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   Ice cutting. Icecutters in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1890s. 1919 filmreel of ice-harvesting in Pennsylvania, US (silent) Ice cutting is a winter task of collecting surface ice from lakes and rivers for storage in ice houses and use or sale as a cooling method. Rare today, it was common (see ice trade) before the era of widespread mechanical ...

7. Hamilton-Skotch Corporation - Wikipedia

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   Hamilton-Skotch was founded as the Hamilton Metal Products Company in 1919 in Hamilton, Ohio. It was formed by Louis Piker, J. Schlichter and Phillip Piker when they raised $30,000 in capital and merged their businesses, the Hamilton Sheet Metal Company and the Schlichter Manufacturing Company. [1] Hamilton Sheet Metal produced mailboxes and ...