Sunny South Steamboat

The Sunny South steamboat, shown here in a circa 1914 photo by Erik Overbey, made runs up the Tombigbee River in the early twentieth century and capsized in Mobile Bay in 1916.

Sunny South steamboat docked on an Alabama river. Several people sit on a small rowboat sitting on the shore a few yards to the front of the steamboat.
Courtesy of the Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South Alabama
Sunny South steamboat docked on an Alabama river. Several people sit on a small rowboat sitting on the shore a few yards to the front of the steamboat.