Miscellaneous Postcards and Photographs

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A color illustration of a steamboat on the Mississippi River is featured on this postcard. The steamboat is load with 4000 bales of cotton and has two smoke stacks. The title of the postcard is printed along the top left of the image. The card has some visible crease damage on the edges. A postmark dated November 20, 1913 is on the back of the card with a handwritten note on the left side of the back.

Transcription

Always Beautiful It Pays Safty first Stop. Look [and] listen then use your feet watch the Safty lights

Publication Date

11-20-1913

Time Period

1910-1919

Subjects

Postcards; Steamboats; Cotton

Keywords

steamboats; cotton; Mississippi River

Geographic Location

Memphis (Tenn.)

Object Type

image

Format (original)

postcard

Format (digital)

PDF

Digital ID

MFM_MSS_837_postcard_1913-11-20_Steamboat-T.P.-Leathers_001

Source

Mississippi State University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Manuscripts Unit, Lucius Marion Lampton, MD Historical Images Collection, Mississippiana Collection, Postcard/Photographs, Box 5, United States

Repository

Manuscripts

Digital Publisher

Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version)

Rights

Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.

Contact Information

For more information about the contents of this collection, email sp_coll@library.MSState.edu.

Steamboat, T. P. Leathers, Loaded with 4000 Bales of Cotton on the Mississippi River, Memphis, Tennessee

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