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Photo image of scanned scrapbook page 20. Pictured is a silhouette image of Major Henry Massie, founder of Portsmouth in 1803. Massie lived from 1768 to 1830 and is buried in Oxmore, Ky.
Bottom image is a color postcard depicting Lovers' Lane, Rose…

Photo image of scanned scrapbook page: Mayor-Elect John B. Jones. Images is faded and cut from Pictorial Portsmouth book.

Photo image of scanned scrapbook page: colorized postcard of a riverboat traveling on the Ohio Canal.
Article about the good qualities of Portsmouth in the Emigrants Directory.

Photo image of scanned scrapbook page: pictured is a group of unknown individuals with motorcycles and "stop" and "go" signs.

Photo image of scanned scrapbook page: Second (2nd) Street School, built in 1850 and torn down in 1917. Clark Smith was the first teacher. Image is a postcard.
Robert Bell and his residence on Mill Street. Bell worked as a blacksmith out of the back…

Photo image of scanned scrapbook page: Portsmouth citizen Charles Newman, cut from Pictorial Portsmouth.
Marriage Announcement of Ida May Tuttle to Charles Bonsall Richardson on May 21, 1901
Portsmouth Wagon Stock Works, Marting Bros. & Co. at the…

Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured is the monument to James Tanner in Greenlawn Cemetery. Tanner was killed while firing a cannon in front of the United States Hotel in honor of President Andrew Jackson's visit to Portsmouth.
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Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured are images cut from Pictorial Portsmouth book. Charles E. Hard, W. B. Jackson, and W. V. Simmons
The Ohio Valley Bank located at the corner of Chillicothe and Sixth (6th) Streets
Newspaper Ad for J.…

Colorized photo image of scrapbook page. Pictured is a color postcard of York place with a few typed lines giving details about the place. York Place occupied the site of the Gaylord Rolling Mills, from Court Street to Chillicothe Street. The elm…

Photo image of scanned scrapbook page: a musical program and a black and white postcard of Profile Rock located at Springville Hill. Photo on postcard by Cook.

Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Poets and what they've written about Portsmouth. Billy Fitzgerald (The Jester) Wrote "My Scioto Valley Home"
Lew Lowry wrote" On the Beautiful Old Ohio" and "Things Am Comin' My Way"
W. B. Tomlinson wrote the…

Photo image of scanned scrapbook page: card telling about the Theodore Roosevelt Game Preserve, Ohio's First Public Shooting Grounds and the American Scenic and Preservation Society