[The Steamboat landing, Vicksburg, Miss.] – Antique Wall Art
![[The Steamboat landing, Vicksburg, Miss.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ac/ac8bb0d30ef9-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [The Steamboat landing, Vicksburg, Miss.]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[The Steamboat landing, Vicksburg, Miss.]
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The name painted on the boat in the background, *Belle of the Bends*, identifies this side-wheeler at the Vicksburg, Mississippi, landing, where the river bends beneath the city's high bluffs. Between about 1900 and 1910, when this glass negative was made, steamboats still carried cotton, freight and passengers along the Mississippi, and a levee like this one was the busy edge where cargo was loaded and travelers came and went. The Detroit Publishing Company, which produced the view, sold many scenes of river towns and travel destinations, so the picture preserves a record of river commerce just before railroads and automobiles reshaped how people and goods moved.
| Created / published | [between 1900 and 1910] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Title from jacket. Belle of the Bends" on boat in background. "G 3794" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 034341. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Belle of the Bends (Side wheeler) Steamboats. Levees. Passengers.United States--Mississippi--Vicksburg. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 796 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-67310 |
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