American industrialist Clarence Birdseye, born on this date in 1886, developed a way to deep freeze food. By 1925, Birdseye was marketing frozen fish, the first of many frozen food advances that changed the way Americans shopped and ate.
Something Is Fishy Here
American industrialist Clarence Birdseye, born on this date in 1886, developed a way to deep freeze food. By 1925, Birdseye was marketing frozen fish, the first of many frozen food advances that changed the way Americans shopped and ate.
Artist Theodore Wores's view of a Chinatown fish market dates well before fish came in neat square shapes!
At the turn of the century, Theodore Wores (1859–1939) was the best known artist working in San Francisco, where he painted portraits and scenes of Chinatown. In 1885 he set sail for Japan and became one of the first Americans to paint there. His home, studio, and much of his early work was destroyed in the great San Francisco fire of 1906.
Pictured: Theodore Wores, 1859–1939, The Chinese Fishmonger, 1881, oil, 34 3/4 x 46 1/8 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Drs. Ben and A. Jess Shenson.