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Colored image of steam engine entering bridge over water

Handcolored photo of YMCA built in 1906 at 2829 Gallia Street(at the end of Norfolk Street) by the N & W Railroad for railroad employees sleeping quarters. It was closed in 1960 and razed in 1968.

Black & white photo of three boats in water

Colored image of several steamboats in the Ohio River

Colored image of Chillicothe Street showing City Opera House at the corner of Fourth Street. It was built in 1895 and damaged by fire in 1914, but was rebuilt and known for many years as the Kresge Store.

Green tinted photo image of horse pulling carriage along a dirt road between trees and waterway toward Rushtown. Crichton's Inn was a summer retreat a few hundred yards from where the Norfolk & Western Railway tracks cross Route 104. It was on a…

color photo of Portsmouth taken from the air

Color photo of Chillicothe Street, looking south from corner of Fifth Street

Black & white photo of people looking away from camera "Patriotic Parade, So Webster O." written on back. Likely this scene is in 1918 after the Sedition Act was passed. A local farmer, son of German parents, had to apologize, kiss the American…

Black & white photo with sky tinted blue, streetcar at corner.
2nd Street

Black & white photo of several people in front of a concrete arch structure. The logs and debris in foreground may indicate flood damage, 1913

Black & white photo of ball players with either Trinity or Cubs on shirts