Mississippi River at Memphis in 2009
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Old Auction Street Landing on the Wolf River about 1895 - This was the 1st landing in Memphis - gone today - this is one of the earliest postcards of Memphis (I own an original as you see copied here)
Landing at Memphis about 1907 - before Riverside Drive was built in the 1930s - the original landing extended up to the RR tracks - this was all cobblestone - view here is from the foot of Beale St - note there is no Mud Island in 1907 - also the main Miss R channel was to the left, not the right, in the distance
View (Birds-Eye) of the Old Memphis Levee and Landing - Confederate Park in the Foreground - Wolf River in the Background - about 1910 (all gone today)
Oldest Known Photo of the Memphis Bluffs and Landing - about 1864 - held in the Library of Congress (roughly at the foot of old Market St above the old Market St Landing)
View of Miss River at Memphis in 1908 - Old River Channel still there - disappeared and shifted east during high water in 1916 (old channel is where Dacus Lake is today)
Riverfront around 1870 from Front and Court looking West (where Confederate Park is now)
Same as above about 1920 - at Confederate Park, Memphis, TN - SE corner looking West over the Miss River - note Mud Island has formed by 1920 - then compare this picture to the one above
View of the Mississippi River looking northwest - the finest perspective to be had between St. Paul and New Orleans (at Jefferson Ave west of Front looking at buildings on the Promenade - about 1910 [Pink Palace Collection - Memphis Public Library])
Confederate Park area (today) at Court St looking East to Front St top of the Bluff - Photo about 1877? (Customshouse and US Courthouse are not in the photo to the right of Court St which would put the date before 1879) - when was Confederate Park developed? Around 1900-1910 - in 1908 actually - Note one Civil War cannon in the park on the bluff to the left behind the stone wall?