Description: This linen-era postcard depicts rows of cotton bales stacked along the Memphis levee on the Mississippi River, with large steamboats docked alongside. Workers and wagons are visible among the bales, illustrating the city's role as a major cotton shipping hub in the American South. The scene captures an important period of Memphis commercial history when cotton trade dominated the waterfront.

Publisher: Bluff City News Co., Memphis, Tenn.; printed by Colourpicture Publication, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A.; card number 15332.