A shipment of potatoes is unloaded from a riverboat in Fort Smith circa 1900. Taken from an old picture postcard, the bridge in the distance probably is the railroad bridge which joined downtown Fort Smith with eastern Oklahoma. It spanned the Arkansas River from the 1880s until the 1970s. It was demolished around the time the old Garrison Avenue bridge built in 1922 was replaced and also demolished. The original was hand-tinted with color for reproduction. The color has been removed here to reveal more detail.