Memphis: Then & Now
See what's changed and what hasn't in Memphis over the last 45 to 100+ years.
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Memphis Riverfront and Skyline 1942/2017
1942 photograph by Arthur Rothstein. Library of Congress,
Prints & Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration/
Office of War Information Collection, item 2017775267.
2017 photograph by Tim Doyle.
Memphis was founded in 1819 on the Fourth Chickasaw Bluff.
It’s the largest city on the Mississippi River.
