Steamboat "Sadie Lee", Memphis, undated

Creators

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Source Collection

Twentieth century photograph collection, Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries

Identifier

sc.0462.011_003.003

Description

Sternwheeler "Sadie Lee" of the Lee Line being unloaded at the Memphis Landing on the Mississippi River, undated. Photographer: Coovert, Memphis, Tennessee.

Built in 1901, the boat worked the Memphis-Ashport trade and then Memphis-Vicksburg. She hit a log and sank at O.K. Landing, Mississippi, in 1910, was raised but sank again at Dennis Landing, Mississippi, in 1912 after hitting a snag.

Date Created

2021

Date

undated

Recommended Citation

"Steamboat "Sadie Lee", Memphis, undated" (2021). Other images. 213.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-20thcenturyphoto3/213