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  • Collection: Historic Postcards

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Black & white photo of tennis courts and shelter building

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Tinted image of ice skaters, from the homes in the background this is most likely Mill Brook Lake in New Boston.

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Black & white photo of camp area in Union township, Scioto County

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Dark image of a steam locomotive passing beside the Canal on the west side in moon light..

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Colored photo image of children and playground equipment at York Park near the river. York Park, named for Levi D. York, was outside the old flood wall between Chillicothe Street and Washington Street in the early 1900's.

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Sepia tone image of York Park outside of the old flood wall. York Park, named for Levi D. York, was located on the Ohio River bank in the area between Chillicothe Street and Washington Street in the early 1900's.

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Colored image of a hillside farm house and buildings. Believed to be the residence of Charles Brombacher at 1617 Mabert Avenue

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Colored image of unpaved Scioto Trail (now route 23)

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Colored image of canal, towpath, bridge, and mill in West Portsmouth. The grist mill was built by Lemuel Moss in 1834. David Gibson built a distillery nearby in 1857. George Davis bought and operated both businesses from about 1860 until shortly…

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Black & white photo of a line of many people walking across the frozen Ohio river to the Kentucky side, the winter of 1918.

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Tinted image of ferry docked at Kentucky side of river, Portsmouth shows in the background

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Black & white photo of ice and snow on river
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