This supplies institutional context for the material infrastructure behind increasingly systematic iced-cocktail preparation. It corroborates the commercial and technological setting but does not independently establish an exact adoption decade.
Complete Library of Congress Business Reference article on the ice industry, reviewed through the May 6, 2024 Internet Archive capture.
The Library of Congress traces the growth of American ice supply from Tudor and Wyeth's improved natural-ice harvesting and international trade through Gorrie's 1851 patent and the spread of successful ice factories in the following decade; it also notes urban demand for cold drinks and cocktails.
Natural ice harvesting through urban cold-drink demand
Paragraphs on Tudor/Wyeth, Gorrie/Carré, and Washington/New Orleans
Paraphrase checked against the complete archived article body. No statement of nationwide uniform cocktail adoption is inferred.
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