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  • Collection: Historic Postcards

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black & white photo image of recreation area of Boy Scout Camp Oyo, off route 125 in Shawnee Forest, Nile Township

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Sepia toned post card of Girl Scout Camp Molly Lauman, Lucasville, Ohio. Unknown scouts camping.

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Black and white photo image of girls playing in a pool at the Girl Scout Camp Molly Lauman located in Morgan Township. The camp was established in 1929. A few years before her death in 1933, Mary Elizabeth Dever Lauman (Molly) donated about 100…

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Black and white image of the Home For Aged Women at the northwest corner of Front and Chillicothe Streets on lot 144. Opened in 1889, the 15 room building was used until the lot was needed for construction of the approach to the first U.S. Grant…

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Colorized image of the steamboat the Tom Greene docked at the public landing on the Ohio River.

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Sepia toned photo image of the public landing on the Ohio River at Portsmouth. The steamboat docked is the Tom Greene.

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Black & white photo image of the steamer Greenwood along the Ohio River. The Greenwood was built by Captain Greene at Parkersburg, WV and completed in Ironton. On her maiden trip, October, 1898, she left Portsmouth and sank when she hit a snag at…

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Sepia tone photograph image of horse-drawn float carrying numerous women with parasols and displaying an American flag

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Black and white photo image of corn, potatoes and pumpkins on display with starred banners overhead. Text on back lists "Fowler's, Portsmouth, Ohio."

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Street Scene of Korn Karnival Parade with Old Post Office at the corner of Chillicothe and Gallia Streets in background. The Korn Karnival preceded the River Days Parade. It lasted from 1913 to 1917.

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Black and white photo image taken from crowd of William H. Taft on stage at Tracy Park. In 1853 Tracy Park was given to the city of Portsmouth by Francis Campbell in honor of his attorney, Samuel M Tracy. John R T Barnes, the first Scioto County…

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"You Are the Only One In Portsmouth" written above a couple sitting closely in a field.
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