colored image of church building at 701 Fifth (5th) Street showing the 1915 educational wing addition. This building was dedicated in 1887 as the German Evangelical Church. The church banned the German language in 1918 and became the First Evangelical Church. In 1963 the education unit was replaced with a more modern wing which houses a child daycare. The group has been known as the Evangelical United Church of Christ since 1956.
Colored image of the church building at 701 Fifth (5th) Street. This building was dedicated in 1887 as the German Evangelical Church. In 1918 German language was dropped and the name changed to the First Evangelical Church. Since 1956 the congregation has been known as the Evangelical United Church of Christ.
Scanned page 51 from Henry A. Lorberg scrapbook containing black & white images of the first electric cars in the city (1893) and John Abbot's Zoo at 10th (Tenth) and Offnere (Colonel John Abbott had a collection of Belgian hares, opossums, doves, pigeons and other animals).
Scanned unnumbered page from Henry A. Lorberg scrapbook containing black & white images of First Degree Team; Father McDowell; Jesse Young; J. W. Fulton; Martin Molster; J.P. Purdum.
Photo image scanned from scrapbook. Pictured is a typed page with a brief history of the first Decoration Day celebration. Bottom: picture of Captain Washington Williamson.
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page 481. First City Directory (1856); S.P. Drake; Republican Office; A.C. Post; Ward, Waller & Cone; J.F. Towell; Henry Dinsmore & Co; Mineral Water Manufacturers; John Behrens; Bell & Co; R. Bell; N. White; J.T. Vincent; W.H. Are; Gunn and McColm; Erasmus Gates; S.P. Nickels; J.H. Bentley; C.C. Hyatt; S.H. Holmes; C.P. Changle & Co; John M. Herder; J.B. Nichols; S.D. Bishop; James Salsbury & Son; Charles Kehrer; D.N. Murray
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page 482. First City Directory (1856) Cont; Lehman Bros; Front Street; Frank Welty; Lafayette House; Giles Gilbert Jr; Massie Block; John Tillow; H.R. Charlesworth; Wm. Miller; Tracy and Davis; The Washington Works; Henry Davis; Steam Shop and Foundry; C.A.M. Damarin & Co; Neill and Eberhardt; D.D. Rhodes & Co; Brown, Reed, & Co; Ebenezer Williams; The People's Foundry; City Clothing Store; B. Dreyfuss; James Grimes; Wm. Miller; M.V. Cropper; E. Miller; Levi and Mayer; Ben Franklin; R. Spry; Leonard Schwable; Henry Maule's Old Stand; Portsmouth Mfg. Co; Murray & Stevenson; M. & S. Timmonds; W.S. Brown & Son
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page: First Church of Christ, Scientist, Portsmouth, O.
Ad for W. Grimes New Stove & Tin Store on Chillicothe Street
The Corson Corner: Ward's Restaurant
Ad for The People's Foundry (Portsmouth Foundry) at the corner of Chillicothe and Fourth (4th) Streets
Cream color ceramic commemorative plate with pink image of the First Christian Church building at Third (3rd) & Gay Streets in Portsmouth, Ohio. The building is shown as it appeared after the educational unit was completed in 1931 . Because the Gay Street widening project required the razing of this building, the last service was held on October 29, 1972.
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page 320. Pictured: First Bookstore (1817); First Flour Mill (1818); First Factory (1818); First Tax (1815); Gen. Kendall; Brush Creek (1824); Aaron Fuller (1829); First Fire (1820); First Torchlight (1827): Henry Clay; First Camp Meeting (1823); First Wallpaper (1833); C.C. Hyatt; Washington Kinney; Early Merchants (1844); Vincent Brodbeck; Nation Hotel; John Crughead; Paul Jones; Henry Steamshorn; Stephen Brodbeck; James Lodwick; Hugh Stewart; John Fecker; Fred Englebrecht; John Ross; G.J. Leet; Joseph Tritch
