Black and white drawing of the Ohio River landing at Portsmouth and the U.S. Mail Scioto boat in view. This drawing was printed in Henry Howe's "Historical Collections of Ohio" first published in about 1850.
Tinted image of the Island Queen steamboat and two other boats. The Island Queen, property of the Coney Island Company, was built in Cincinnati in 1896. She and three other steamboats burned at Cincinnati in 1922.
Tinted image of the Greenwood steamboat in the Ohio river. The Greenwood was built by Captain Greene at Parkersburg, WV and completed in Ironton. On her maiden trip in October, 1898, she left Portsmouth and sank at the mouth of the Scioto River when she hit a snag. She was raised and repaired and ran the Cincinnati-Pomeroy-Charleston trades. In 1925 she collided with the Chris Greene and sank.
