Browse Items (291 total)

  • Collection: Historic Item Collection

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Emerald green glass box with gold decoration and fading name - "Steinkamp & Co", Portsmouth, OH". Longtime furniture company (1907-1928). Located 526-530 Second (2nd) Street. Sold to Lewis Furniture in 1928.

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Clear glass bottle red and white painted labeling with "Bubble" Design: "Crass Delicious Beverages."
On back: "Property of Portsmouth Coca Cola Bottling Co., Inc., Portsmouth, Ohio." Content and fluid oz.

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Iron skillet design ashtray with imprint. Some rust.
Plant was located at 618 Eleventh (11th) Street

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Iron skillet design ashtray with imprint. Some rust.
Plant was located at 618 Eleventh (11th) Street

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White ceramic plate with embossed edge and red illustration of church building. Name in cursive and date.

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Brown case with silver print. "Dr. A.P. Altizer, Optometrist, Lyric Bldg, Dial 2-9381, Portsmouth, O."
Enclosed round-rimmed glasses with dark brown frame- one arm broken, Dr. Arthur Paul Altizer was located at 822 1/2 Gallia Street.

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Off-white gray and pink marbled background. Illustrations of two barbershop dressed men. "Brother of the Brush, 1815-1865, Portsmouth, Ohio Sesquicentennial June 5-12" on front.

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Quarter-sized, brass colored token with hole. One side: "Old Kentucky Saloon, P. O." Other side: "Good for 5¢ in trade." Owned by Rochester Carter (d. 1902) and located on Front Street.

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Silver and tarnished metal folding nail file with company name in Portsmouth, Ohio.
Henry Atlas began his business in Portsmouth in 1895 on West Second (2nd) Street. He left Portsmouth in 1904 to open a business in Dayton. He went bankrupt in 1904…

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Silver, oval, metal fob depicting the name and image of tractor on front. Name and "Fob of the Month" on back. Plant located at Third and Jefferson until 1913 when it moved to Spring Lane.

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Color image of Dale Evans on a lapel pin. "Post Grape Nuts Flakes 1953 © R. R." on back. R. R. indicating Roy Rogers.

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Vulcan Septum Putter number 8; wood handle with steel putter. engraved with Vulcan logo, putter name and " Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.". The Vulcan Golf plant was located at Fourth (4th) and Jefferson Streets. A division of the Vulcan Last Co., the golf…

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