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Black & white photo of a man with a horse drawn cart lettered U.S. Laundry Co. of Fourth (4th) Street. The 1910 - 1911 Portsmouth city directory lists the United States Laundry Co at 24 E Fourth (4th) street.

Hand colored image of church building with small trees

Black and white photo image of the church building at the corner of Seventh (7th) and Gay Streets.

Color tinted image of church building with several people at corner of Seventh (7th) and Gay streets.

Color tinted image of W. F. Nesbet steamboat. Some references mention a steamer named the "W.F. Nisbet" which ran on the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers in the 1890's.

Black & white image of the Washington Hotel. Built in 1901 at the corner of Second (2nd) and Market Streets, the Washington charged $3.00 per day in 1903 (Evans history of Scioto County.) From 1939 to 1956 it was called the Milner Hotel. In about…

Sepia toned drawing of the Washington School built in 1926 on 11th (Eleventh) Street near John Street. It was leased by Happy Hearts from 1965 until 1979. In 1990 Portsmouth Inner City Development Corporation purchased and developed the building…

Tinted image of the Washington Hotel. Built in 1901 at the corner of Second (2nd) and Market Streets, the Washington charged $3.00 per day in 1903 (Evans history of Scioto County.) From 1939 to 1956 it was known as the Milner Hotel. In 1979 the…

Tinted image of the YMCA building at 2829 Gallia Street at the end of Norfolk Street, built in 1906 by the N & W for railroad employees sleeping quarters. It was closed in 1960 and razed in 1968.

Black and white image of unknown three story building surrounded by trees on Third (3rd) Street

Tinted image of street car on tracks on 17th Street (Seventheenth), east of Findlay St.

Colored image of the first US Grant Bridge, viewed from the Kentucky side, connecting Ohio and KY by US Route 23, showing Portsmouth in the background. Also known as the Fullerton Bridge, it opened in 1927 as a toll bridge, became toll free in 1974,…