Freighters Waiting Their Turn to Enter the Locks - Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan - 1940s Linen Postcard Hoosier_Youth The glacier face is from

The glacier face is from 100 to 400 feet high and “Flows” at a rate of less than three feet per day

On the same estate stands the Johna No Mabel Ringling Museum of Art housing one of the best collections in America of original paintings by old masters

Front: Mendenhall Glacier and Auk Lake

The channel greatly simplifies travel between these cities

Freighters Waiting Their Turn to Enter the Locks - Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan - 1940s Linen Postcard Hoosier_Youth The glacier face is fromFront: Freighters Waiting Their Turn to Enter the Locks, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. 1940s Linen Postcard Back: "Approximately 25,000 ships pass through the Soo Locks during the eight months navigation period. The Weitzel Lock is 515 feet long; the Poe Lock 800 feet long; the Davis and Sabin Locks, each 1550 ft. long, or 250 feet longer than the famous Gatun Locks at Panama. Either Davis or Sabin lock can lock through two modern 600 ft. steamers at one