Mobile, Alabama's major port city, was central to the state's cotton industry in the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century. Here, steamboat workers load cotton and other commodities onto a steamboat for transport down river to be transferred to larger ships headed for distant markets.
Steamboat in Mobile, ca. 1910
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