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Recent Posts
- REES LEE glass negative location unknown
- H. W. BUTTORFF in a bad way March 1899
- Sinking of the GEORGIA LEE and the JAMES LEE January 1918
- Captain Milt Harry one time friend of the Lee Line and failed attempt to restore the James Lee House into a museum circa 1962 however later turned into the beautiful James Lee House bed and breakfast.
- Pat Cleburne photo from the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library Tulane University
Recent Comments
- David Reed on REES LEE glass negative
- Rusty on Lee Line Boat History – Way’s Packet Directory
- Stan Johnson on Howard Shipyard freight hoist and capstan mechanical drawing dated 1874
- leelinesteamers on ROBERT E LEE interior Howard Shipyard Collection University of Louisville
- My great-grandfather’s story of theft aboard The Robert E. Lee on Robert E Lee
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Telling the history of the Lee Line Steamboat Line 1862 to 1926 with occasional Memphis history
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- Lee Family members
- Family Portraits and history
- Capt. Jim Lee
- Capt. Stacker Lee as recorded by Capt William Tippitt
- G Peters Lee
- James Lee IV American Hero
- James Lee Jr – lawyer, steamboat captain, bank officer and father of 10 children
- James Lee Jr and Rowena Bayliss Lee circa 1900
- Robert E Lee, Bayliss G Lee and Lady Lee Phillips Edge
- Rosa Lee patron of the arts
- James Lee Sr and Penniah Gibson decendants
- Lee Brothers New Orleans
- Lee family final resting places
- Family Portraits and history
- Lee Line artifacts
- Circa 1900’s Lee Line advertising mirror
- Lee Line advertising mirror
- Lee Line Key fob
- Lee Line lapel pin
- Lee Line National Cash Register late 1890’s
- Lee Line nickel silver serving dish
- Lee Line Rouster Badge
- Lee Line serving dish circa 1875
- Lee Line spoon and Majestic Hotel spoon
- Lee Line token
- Majestic Excursion Line token
- Lee Line Boat Sinking Reports
- Lee Line Boats
- Lee Line Boat History – Way’s Packet Directory
- Lee Line Fleet 1899 w\gunboat Nashville
- Lee Line Wharfboats
- Main Lee Line Boats
- DEAN ADAMS
- FERD HAROLD
- FERD HAROLD Hickman KY
- Georgia Lee
- Georgia Lee new
- James Lee at unknown location
- James Lee early picture
- James Lee first rebuilt
- JAMES LEE Galina IL area
- James Lee the first at shipyard
- James Lee wagon loaded
- Peters Lee on the Ohio River
- PHIL ALLIN
- REES LEE Cairo IL
- REES LEE taking on cotton circa 1905
- Robert E Lee
- ROBERT E LEE at launch 1898
- Stacker Lee
- Smaller Lee Line boats
- Chickasaw
- City of St. Joseph (renamed ECLIPSE 1916) Memphis TN
- City of St. Joseph renamed ECLIPSE in 1916
- GAYOSO
- H W BUTTORFF later named the JOHN LEE
- Harry Lee (the first)
- HARRY LEE under Lee Line name
- Lady Lee barrel loaded
- Lady Lee cotton loaded
- ORA LEE
- PAT CLEBURNE
- RENE MC CREADY
- Rowena Lee
- RUTH
- Lee Line Ephemera
- 1868 NATOMA (LEE LINE boat) freight bill
- 1871/77 PHIL ALLIN and COAHOMA freight bills
- 1887 Lee Line Steamboat advertisements
- 1888 Lee Line Steamer Ad Memphis Polk City Directory
- 1890 Lee Brothers Advertisement
- 1890 Lee Line Steamer Ad Polk Memphis City Directory
- 1894 Charter of the CITY OF SAVANNAH
- 1900 circa Lee Line Tourist Guide
- 1900 Lee Line Money Bill Lading
- 1902 Lee Brothers Advertisement
- 1902 Lee Line Freight Bill
- 1909 Waterways Journal Lee Line advertisement
- 1912 Envelope
- 1912 Lee Line stock certificate
- 1913 circa Lee Line Steamer Guide
- Lee Line Poster
- Lee Line service map
- St. Louis-Memphis Trans. Co and Majestic Excursion Co.
- Lee Line passes etc.
- Memphis History
- 1841 Memphis flatboat men brought under control
- 1859 Bohlen Wilson Dealers in Ice
- 1859 Tanner Directory Medical Advertisement
- 1865 Deneson Memphis Directory Golden Wafers
- 1865 Deneson Memphis Directory Union World without End
- 1865 Long’s Memphis Directory ad for artificial legs
- 1904 Polk Directory ad for cure of whiskey, opium and tobacco habits
- 1906 Polk Memphis Directory Reed School ad
- REES LEE glass negative
- U. of Louisville Howard Shipyard Pictures
- GEORGIA LEE launch Howard Shipyard Collection Univ of Louisville
- GEORGIA LEE trial run Howard Shipyard Collection Univ of Louisville
- JAMES LEE (2nd) Howard Shipyard Collection Univ of Louisville
- JAMES LEE interior Howard Shipyard Collection Univ of Louisville
- ORA LEE post launch Howard Shipyard Collection Univ of Louisville
- PETERS LEE post launch Howard Shipyard Collection Univ of Louisville
- REES LEE Howard Shipyard Collection Univ of Louisville
- REES LEE launch Howard Shipyard Collection Univ of Louisville
- ROBERT E LEE interior Howard Shipyard Collection University of Louisville
- ROBERT E LEE launch Howard Shipyard Collection Univ. of Louisville
- ROBERT E LEE post launch Howard Shipyard Collection Univ of Louisville
- STACKER LEE hull (1902) Howard Shipyard Collection Univ of Louisville
- STACKER LEE trial run Howard Shipyard Univ of Louisville Collection
- U. of Wisconsin Lee Line boats
- Lee Line boats owned from the 1860’s to the early 1880’s
- Lee Line boats owned from the mid 1880’s through pre 1920
- 1887 ROSA LEE – Univ of Wisconsin collection
- 1888 RUTH
- 1890 ROWENA LEE Univ of Wisconsin collection
- 1898 Georgia Lee Paducah Kentucky
- 1898 JAMES LEE (2nd) Howard Shipyard – Univ of Wisconsin collection
- 1898 JAMES LEE hauling cotton – Univ of Wisconsin collection
- 1898 JAMES LEE Memphis River front – Univ of Wisconsin collection
- 1898 ROBERT E LEE last voyage Univ of Wisconsin collection
- 1900 CITY OF CLIFTON Univ of Wisconsin Collection
- 1901 SADIE LEE Univ. of Wisconsin collection
- 1902 ELEONORE University of Wisconsin collection
- 1902 STACKER LEE at landing Univ of Wisconsin collection
- 1902 STACKER LEE at Memphis Univ of Wisconsin collection
- 1902 STACKER LEE pilot Univ of Wisconsin collection
- 1912 CORONA formally BOB LEE JR
- 1915 HARRY LEE (2nd) – Univ of Wisconsin collection
- 1915 HARRY LEE (2nd) dock side – Univ of Wisconsin collection
- 1915 HARRY LEE w\coal barge – Univ of Wisconsin collection
- 1918 Sinking of the DESOTO and the GEORGIA LEE Univ of Wisconsin