{"id":2676,"date":"2017-08-22T21:44:28","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T21:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/?p=2676"},"modified":"2017-08-22T22:00:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T22:00:13","slug":"harry-lee-later-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/?p=2676","title":{"rendered":"HARRY LEE later years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This postcard is from my from my friend Ed Provine&#8217;s collection of steamboat postcards. \u00a0 Way&#8217;s Packet Directory recorded the following on the HARRY LEE which was the last boat to enter the Lee Line fleet. \u00a0The cars in the foreground appear to be 1930&#8217;s vintage autos.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HARRY LEE<\/strong>:\u00a0 Boat 2541 Way\u2019s Packet Directory page 208.\u00a0 Stern Wheel, steel hull, Packet built St. Louis Mo., 1915, 175.5 x 36 x 6.7.\u00a0 Engines, 16\u2019s \u2013 6.\u00a0 Three boilers set on her backwards; fired from the deck-room.\u00a0\u00a0 Owned by the Lee Line, Memphis.\u00a0 Ran Memphis-Helena-Friars Point.\u00a0 In January 1921 she was 40 miles up the St. Francis River(Arkansas).\u00a0 She was built at the Phil A. Rohan Boat, Boiler &amp; Tank Works, St. Louis.<\/p>\n<p>Last owned by the Valley Line, Memphis, which sold her June 1924 to Sherburne Transportation Co.\u00a0 She served during WWII at Alexandria La., on the Red River as a barracks for soldiers, and was moved from there to Orange, Tex., used to quarter shipyard workmen and burned May 12, 1942.\u00a0 She was then converted into a showboat at Orange and was still there in 1951. \u00a0The Valley Line was formed from the Delta Line and several Lee Line boats. \u00a0This postcard would have dated to sometime after 1942.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2677\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Harry-Lee-postcard-front.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2677\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2677\" src=\"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Harry-Lee-postcard-front-1024x637.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Harry-Lee-postcard-front-1024x637.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Harry-Lee-postcard-front-300x187.jpg 300w, http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Harry-Lee-postcard-front-768x478.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2677\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Show Boat Harry Lee Texas Floating Amusement Palace<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Harry-Lee-postcard-reverse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2678\" src=\"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Harry-Lee-postcard-reverse-646x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"1014\" srcset=\"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Harry-Lee-postcard-reverse-646x1024.jpg 646w, http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Harry-Lee-postcard-reverse-189x300.jpg 189w, http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Harry-Lee-postcard-reverse-768x1216.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This postcard is from my from my friend Ed Provine&#8217;s collection of steamboat postcards. \u00a0 Way&#8217;s Packet Directory recorded the following on the HARRY LEE which was the last boat to enter the Lee Line fleet. \u00a0The cars in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/?p=2676\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5XurE-Ha","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2676"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2681,"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676\/revisions\/2681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}