Object Record
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Metadata
Object ID # |
1977.047.001 |
Object Name |
Icebox |
Title |
Refinished Wooden Ice Box (Refrigerator) |
Lexicon category |
4: T&E For Materials |
Year Range from |
1889 |
Year Range to |
1894 |
Made |
Knowles & Nott |
Place of Origin |
Brantford, Ontario |
Description |
A refinished wooden (oak?) ice box with one tall vertical door on the right and two smaller doors on the left. It has short feet that raise the body from sitting on the floor. |
Makers mark |
Metal maker's label |
Provenance |
The Knowles & Nott company of Brantford was established in 1889 and was dissolved in 1894 as Mr. Knowles retired (Hardware Dealers Magazine, 1894, pag. 203). Likely purchased and used by the Bishop or MacKay family of Owen Sound, Grey County. Last owned by Fred MacKay Jr. of Owen Sound, who was a descendant of the MacKay family, the Hiram Kilbourn family, the Ebenzeer Bishop family and the William Avery Bishop Sr. family. |
Collection |
Household Equipment, 19th-c Collection |
Material |
Wood/Metal |
Dimensions |
H-45.669 W-35.906 D-21.85 inches |
Found |
Owen Sound, Grey County |
People |
MacKay, Fred (Jr.) Bishop (Senior), William Avery Bishop, Margaret Louisa MacKay, Louise Bishop, William A. (Billy) |
Subjects |
Kitchens Food supply Food Refrigerator industry Refrigerators Ice |
Search Terms |
Mulholland Street |
Function |
A kitchen furniture item, which is intended to hold a block of ice and is used to chill foodstuffs to keep them fresh. Ice would be delivered to the household by an ice van. The ice man, or someone else, would move an ice block into the ice box using ice tongs. Circa 1901, the T.Eaton catalogue offered four different "Refrigerators" and illustrated them in their Spring & Summer catalogue of 1901. They illustrated a Brantford-made one, but its styling differs from this example. |