[Rarebooks] FS: FIRE & ICE: 1833 Philadelphia Ice Company Reports

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ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION OF THE PHILADELPHIA ICE COMPANY [with] REPORT OF
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE PHILADELPHIA ICE COMPANY PRESENTED TO THE
STOCKHOLDERS AT THEIR SPECIAL MEETING HELD OCTOBER 1834; and the
Resolution of the Stockholders Adopted at that Meeting.

[Philadelphia: 1833] and Philadelphia; Printed by James Kay, Jun. & Co: 1834.

The Philadelphia Ice Company was formed on October 3rd, 1833. The first
ice season, reported on here, was not good- owing to the late date of
starting, by the time they had located a building site and erected an
ice-storage building most of the ice-gathering season for 1833-34 had
already passed. Inexperience and fraud on the part of the contracted
delivery haulers meant that less than half of the ice taken from the house
during the selling season was actually delivered intact. On the other
hand, this report confirms that the season’s experience showed that their
ice house “has been found to preserve ice beyond every hope and
expectation”, with far less wastage due to melting than the industry
average.

2 booklets. Sewn booklet, 4.25”x6.75”, 7 pages, light soil and browning;
and Softcover, 6”x9.5”, 15 pages, penned names on cover, some soil and
wear, folded once. [09353] $400.00


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