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        • Diary of An Old Lawyer
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      • Robert E Lee, Bayliss G Lee and Lady Lee Phillips Edge
      • Rosa Lee patron of the arts
    • James Lee Sr and Penniah Gibson decendants
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  • Lee Line artifacts
    • Circa 1900’s Lee Line advertising mirror
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    • Lee Line serving dish circa 1875
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    • Lee Steamers heavy metal
    • Majestic Excursion Line token
  • Lee Line Boat Sinking Reports
    • Sinking of the REES LEE January 22, 1906
    • Sinking of the Rowena Lee Oct. 3, 1897
  • Lee Line Boats
    • Lee Line Boat History – Way’s Packet Directory
    • Lee Line Fleet 1899 w\gunboat Nashville
    • Lee Line Wharfboats
      • Lee Line wharf boat St. Louis 1887
      • Lee Line Wharf-boat with REES LEE at Memphis circa 1910-12
      • LEE LINE Wharfboat St. Louis 1904
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      • LEE LINE Wharfboats St. Louis
      • Memphis wharfboat
    • Main Lee Line Boats
      • DEAN ADAMS
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      • 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.
    • Lee Line Advertising postcards and letterhead
    • Lee Line Steamer Annual passes
      • 1880 Memphis Arkansas City & Vicksburg Co.
      • 1894 Lee Line annual pass
      • 1895 1896 1897 1989 1905 1900 Lee Line Annual Pass
      • Lee Line Competitor passes
        • 1893 Arkansas River Packet Co
        • 1897 Memphis Arkansas City Packet Co.
        • Memphis & Vicksburg Packet Co and Memphis & Arkansas City Packet Co.
  • 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
      • 1863 NATRONA second Lee Line steamboat
      • 1872 SILVERTHORN
      • 1883 PARK CITY origionally GAYOSO
    • 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

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Bohlen Huse Ice House equipment repair following April 1913 Miss. River flood

Posted on April 18, 2018 by leelinesteamers
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