Ice Harvesting-- On the Way to the Ice House, Probably Lake St. Clair, Michigan, circa 1905

From 1895 to 1924, the Detroit Publishing Company was one of the major image publishers in the world. The company's wide-ranging stock of original photographs included this ice harvesting image. Workers guide rafts of freshly cut ice through a man-made channel toward an ice house. The floating blocks would be broken into more manageable "cakes" and stored until needed.