Vintage Ice Cream Photographs

Sisters eating their ice-cream after having completed Saturday tasks.
From Rosmarie Wirz's family album, around 1953.

Over the weekend, I had some seriously delicious coconut ice cream, and I have not been able to stop thinking about it since! Needless to say, I’ve got ice cream on my mind, so I thought it was a good time to post some vintage ice cream photos that I’ve collected over the years. I love old photographs, almost as much as I love ice cream, and with summer winding down, I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to share them with you! Enjoy (and go get some ice cream)!! –Erin

 p.s. I spend a great deal of time researching the original sources/photographers of these photos because I think it’s important to give credit to the creator of the image. Nothing makes me more batty than all these websites out there that post images and give absolutely no credit information. People of the internet: someone took that picture, you should at least *try* to find out who did. Okay, that is my rant for the day. Enjoy the photos! :-)

Natchitoches, Louisiana, a woman buying ice cream for children, 1940, photo by Marion Post Wolcott, New York Public Library.

From a late 1940s collection of photos at Woolacombe, North Devon, source: banksider

Ice-cream after school, Berlin, 1931 by Friedrich Seidenstücker

Women eating ice cream bars, 1949, photo by Ollie Atkins

Blackpool, England, c.1950, photo by John Chillingworth

Men eating ice cream outside pharmacy, family photo from Dressed for Tea.

Boy gives ice cream to sister, c. 1950s, photo by George Marks

Ice cream shop near Berlin, Connecticut, photo by Russell Lee

Marilyn Monroe at an ice cream parlor, 1953, photo by Andre de Dienes

You can find more vintage ice cream images after the jump.

Debbie Reynolds eating a sundae, 1965, Archive Photos / Getty Images

Ice cream van parked with man serving ice-cream to a man and woman both on bicycles. Van has lettering on side reading: Peters Ice Cream, The Health Food of a Nation! Peter's American Delicacy Co. (Victoria) Ltd. Burnley St. Richmond, c. 1969, State Library of Victoria.

Mia Farrow, 1977, Terry O’Neill / Getty Images