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Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, October 4, 2011.
Depicted ContentMemphis, TN
Image type
engraving
Original caption
View of Memphis from the West bank of the Mississippi - The Exchange, or Court House building, is seen on the left; the principal Steamboat Landing on the extreme right. The front row of mercantile buildings appear on the summit of the Bluff. The view shows the city as seen from the Memphis and Little Road Railroad, on the Arkansas side of the Mississippi.
Source citation
John Warner Barber & Henry Howe,Our Whole Country or the Past and Present of the United States....Volume II (New York: Tuttle & McCauley, 1861), 884.