Exposition

My visit to the Panama-Pacific Exposition -- and here is where I saw the Great White Frost Refrigerator.

1915 · rif. 60860 — Jackson & Detroit MI: White Frost Refrigerator Co. The Franklin Press 1915. 12mo. 3.7 x 6.25 in. 24 pp. printed in yellow black & white throughout white thin borders numerous illustrations. Colour-illustrated softcovers wraparound cover art of stylish Progressive Era woman w/ Tower of Jewels in background and the exhibit of the Great White Frost Refrigerators on back cover NF. First edition of this very rare catalogue and giveaway sales brochure for the White Frost Refrigerator Co. exhibit at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. In 1915 most refrigerators if the home had one were large wooden cabinets fitted with a space for ice but the White Frost Refrigerator created a 47 inch tall 27 inch in diameter product with a curved enamel steel case wire rotating shelves able to hold up to 100 pounds of ice for cooling and also cool an exterior water cooler tank. Hugh Smith was the president of the company of this White Frost’s which were first patented in 1906 and were very popular at their PPIE debut. No copies in Worldcat. White Frost Refrigerator Co., The Franklin Press, paperback