Strawbery Banke Presents
HISTORIC PORTSMOUTH #29

Teams of oxen once "rolled" the city streets to flatten the snow for sleighs. This photo from a stereoscopic slide shows Pleasant and State streets likely in 1867. Business signs indicate a milliner, an apothecary, a book and music store, a bank and the "Daguerrean Gallery" of the Davis Brothers who took this early photograph.

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From HISTORIC PORTSMOUTH
Early Photographs from the Collections of Strawbery Banke
by James L. Garvin & Susan Grigg, Peter Randall Publisher
(c) Strawbery Banke Museum . All rights reserved.

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