Ode to the Ice Man

An 'Ice Man', delivering a 25lb block of ice in 1928, Houston, Texas. © Story Sloane Collection. In his autobiography Timebends, Arthur Miller recalls an occupation lost in time – that of the ice man, who wore "leather vests and a wet piece of sackcloth slung over the right shoulder, and once the

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Victorian Prudes and their Bizarre Beachside Bathing Machines

Picture that moment when you finally get to the beach after a long winter, excitedly peel off your clothes, run madly towards the water and crash into the salty waves without a care in the world ... this is not that. If you were a beachgoer in Georgian or Victorian times, more specifically, a female

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