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  • Collection: Historic Postcards

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Black and white scanned photo postcard of the Billy Sunday Tabernacle. The tabernacle was located at the corner of Gallia and Lincoln Streets and extended south to Seventh (7th) Street.

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Black & white photo of crowd approaching empty passenger cars. The Norfolk & Western Depot at Tenth (10th) and Waller Streets shows at the left.

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Color photomechanical print of Steel mill and homes in New Boston along the Ohio River; postmarked. Levi D. York built this mill after his Portsmouth mill burned in 1898. This was known as the Portsmouth Steel Company from 1902-1909 and…

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Colored image of the first U.S. Grant Bridge, Portsmouth and the Scioto River north of Portsmouth. Also known as the Fullerton Bridge, it was opened in 1927 as a toll bridge, became toll free in 1974, and was demolished in 2001 in preparation for the…

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black & white photo image of Buena Vista, Scioto County, Ohio

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Colorized image of a bird's eye view of Portsmouth from Kentucky across the Ohio River.

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Colored image showing the old stone Post Office at the corner of Gallia and Chillicothe Streets and the red brick city building or Kricker Building facing the Gallia Street Esplanade or Government Square as it was known then. This view is looking…

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Colored image of Portsmouth taken from the air

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Colored image of the C & O Railroad Bridge, the Ohio River, and Sciotoville viewed from the air. The C & O Railroad bridge, completed in 1917, spans 1,600 feet between the Ohio and Kentucky shores.

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Colorized image of Portsmouth looking from the Kentucky hills across the Ohio River.

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Black and white photo image of Rarden, Ohio. Rarden was organized from a portion of Brush Creek on January 10, 1891 becoming the youngest township in Scioto County.
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