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Ice bound steamers in Mud Lake, near Soo, Mich.


Description
Media Type:
Image
Item Type:
Postcards
Description:
Coloured postcard of Gilchrist Transportation Company steamboats LAKE SHORE and CITY OF NAPLES covered with ice just below the canal at Sault Sainte Marie, MI.
Notes:
Divided back. Postmarked Port [?] 25 Jul 191[ ]
Inscriptions:
<p>"Ice bound steamers in Mud Lake, near Soo, Mich."</p>
<p>Reverse:"Ice bound steamers in Mud Lake, near Soo, Mich."</p> <p>"Steamers "Lake Shore" and City of Naples" held in the ice in Mud Lake, near the "Soo." These boats have head a hard fight with the ice and the elements.</p>
<p>The upper works of both boats are covered with a coating of heavy, slippery ice twenty inches in thickness. A hole must be chopped through the deck house doors and also through the windows of the pilot house, to enable the wheelsman to keep his course.</p>
<p>"Young, Lord & Rhoades, Sault Se. Marie, Mich. Made in U.S.A."</p>
Publisher:
Young, Lord & Rhoades
Place Of Publication:
Sault Ste. Marie, MI
Date of Original:
c1910
Dimensions:
Width: 13.7 cm
Height: 8.6 cm
Subject(s):
Local identifier:
397
Language Of Item:
English
Geographic Coverage:
Latitude: 46.492306297547856
Longitude: -84.30281639099121
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Ice bound steamers in Mud Lake, near Soo, Mich.