Podesta's grand Pacific : ice cream cones
- Bib ID:
- 6816235
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Podesta & Sons, issuing body
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Printer:
- Sydney : Fuerth & Hall Ld.
- Description:
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- Sydney : Podesta & Sons, [between 1900 and 1909?]
- 1 sheet : colour illustrations ; 23 x 21 cm
- Summary:
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A carton packaging label for ice cream cones manufactured by Podesta & Sons. The artwork, printed in red and blue with a frosted appearance, depicts an ice cream cone in front of an iceberg, on which a polar bear and a warus are fighting.
- Biography/History:
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John Podesta emigrated to Australia from the small town of Chiavari in the Province of Genoa, Italy, and established Podesta Ice Cream Delicacy Company in Sydney in 1880, with an office and factory in Gould Street, Sydney. A 1915 article suggested they were Sydney's first commercial ice cream suppliers, and stessed the purity and quality of their product, manufactured in the cleanest factory in Sydney. In 1885 one of their street vendors received a counterfeit coin from a young girl but declined to prosecute. Another vendor was fined for breaking Sunday trading laws in 1900. In 1901 John Podesta was fined for receiving stolen bottles of flavoring essence. From 1913 the firm advertised that it was prepared to supply ice cream to Catholic convents, bazaars and fetes, where it formed a profitable sideline; in 1926 the wholesale price for this purpose was 7s a gallon. The firm passed to F.A. Podesta's son in 1926. In 1936 he described himself as a "sports caterer" in a strike involving a dozen boys selling penny and threepenny lines of sweets and ice creams to children at the Sydney Cricket Ground.--Based on articles in Trove.
- Notes:
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- Caption title.
- "Registered by Podesta & Sons, Australian Iced Delicacy Co., Factory Gould St. off Regent St. Sydney, Tel 486, Redfern".
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-133256986
- Subject:
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This belongs to the [Food industry - confectionery & icecream : trade catalogues ephemera collected by the National Library of Australia]..
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Since 1979 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1909
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