Occupations such as ‘dunny man’, ‘ice man’ and ‘ratcatcher’ are familiar in our collective subconscious, yet often without a visual accompaniment of these jobs being performed. Depictions of these activities in action are poignant relics of public history.
In the case of the ice man, the delivery heyday was mainly throughout the 1940s, before the advent of the electric refrigerator. Images of ice men often depict the unloading of ice blocks from a truck, ready to be delivered to a local ice chest. reported in 1943 that ice manufacturers failed to produce enough ice during a heatwave,
