Miscellaneous Postcards and Photographs
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Description
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)
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.
Recommended Citation
Steamboat, T. P. Leathers, Loaded with 4000 Bales of Cotton on the Mississippi River, Memphis, Tennesee, Lucius Marion Lampton, MD Historical Images Collection, Special Collections Department, Mississippi State University
