Ice Harvesting in the 19th Century

Let's Talk Rusty Iron: Ice harvesting was a boom business in the northeast U.S. during the mid-1800s.

Hand ice tools. A, ice hook; B, fork-type splitting bar; C, grooving bar; D, channel hook bar; E, F, G and H, different styles of bars used to split individual cakes from larger sheets and maneuver the ice blocks.
Appletons’ Cyclopaedia of Applied Mechanics, published in 1885