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- Leonard "Cleanable" Refrigerator, 1882 - Iceboxes provided a convenient way for Americans in the late 19th century to keep perishable foods fresh longer. But it did take some effort. Blocks of ice had to be delivered regularly, pans of melted ice water needed to be emptied and the icebox's interior had to be scrubbed to keep it sanitary. This Leonard "Cleanable" refrigerator offered removable linings for easy cleaning and hopefully less work.
- 1882
- Collections - Artifact
Leonard "Cleanable" Refrigerator, 1882
Iceboxes provided a convenient way for Americans in the late 19th century to keep perishable foods fresh longer. But it did take some effort. Blocks of ice had to be delivered regularly, pans of melted ice water needed to be emptied and the icebox's interior had to be scrubbed to keep it sanitary. This Leonard "Cleanable" refrigerator offered removable linings for easy cleaning and hopefully less work.
- Trade Card for Grand Rapids Refrigerator Company, "The Leonard Hardwood Cleanable Refrigerators: Get the Best," circa 1890 - In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- circa 1890
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Grand Rapids Refrigerator Company, "The Leonard Hardwood Cleanable Refrigerators: Get the Best," circa 1890
In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.