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  • Collection: Historic Postcards

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Colorized image of the Wheelersburg grade school building. This building was built in 1907 on South Street in Wheelersburg

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Colored image of the funeral Home, built in 1924 at 915 Ninth (9th) Street by Frederick Carl Daehler. He had come to Portsmouth in 1854 after leaving his native Germany and had his business at several other locations. He built this as a combination…

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Colorized Image of Government Square on Gallia Street. Views of Columbia Theatre, Moeller meat Market, and Whites Jewelers. The tall white building in the center is the First National Bank before it was doubled in size in about 1924.

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Black & white photo image of the stated 100 Acres of the Steel Plant in New Boston. The plant was known as Whitaker-Glessner Company from 1909-1920. From 1920 to 1946 it was Wheeling Steel Company.

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Colorized photo image of the Sixth (6th) Street Methodist Church at the corner of Sixth (6th) and Chillicothe Streets. This building was razed in 1928 for the construction of the third Portsmouth Masonic Temple.

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Colorized image of the Garfield School building which was built in 1915 at the corner of Gallia Street & Mabert Road. It was enlarged in 1919 and a gymnasium was added in 1957. It closed in 1975 and in 1976 the Scioto County Commissioners bought…

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Colorized image of the Second (2nd) Street School built in 1850 on the southwest corner of Second (2nd) and Chillicothe Streets. It was razed in 1917 and replaced by the new Henry Massie School.

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Black & white image shows businesses, pedestrian, street cars -Chillicothe and Second (2nd) Street

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Colorized image of a view of Front Street, stretching east from Court Street.

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Grayscale photomechanical print showing aerial view of neighborhood around Bond Street School. The twelve room school on the northwest corner of Fourth (4th) & Bond Streets served elementary students from 1906 to 1939. It was razed in 1948 for the…

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Sepia- tone (original) postcard with Chillicothe Street scene, surrounded by floral border and young woman in upper left corner. Red print. "Brandau Bookstore" ad on back.

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colorized photo image of Bond Street School at Fourth (4th) & Bond Streets. Built for $9,117.00, twelve rooms served elementary students from 1906 to 1939. Razed in 1948 for the construction of Albers Supermarket.

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