Browse Items (265 total)

  • Collection: Historic Item Collection

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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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Silver color metal token for bus fare. "Portsmouth City Bus Lines, Inc." on one side with image of a bus. "Good for one fare" and bus on other side. In the 1939 Portsmouth City Directory Portsmouth City Lines Inc. is located at Madison southwest…

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3 tickets tan in color with red print. The first U.S. Grant Bridge was a toll bridge for many years.

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Black metal eyeglass case with gold imprint, "Portsmouth Jewelry & Opt. Co., J. H. Glickman, O. D., 721 Chillicothe St., Portsmouth, O." 1920s metal frame eyeglasses with round lenses within. Inside case is brown, worn material.

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Black ribbon bowtie with gold lettering worn by the men during the Sesquincentennial celebration June, 1965, silver metal clip on back

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Gold colored coin/token.
One side: "Paul Wagner's Lucky Piece WPAY 6:00 P.M. Daily"
Other side: "Sponsored by Portsmouth Pure Oil Dealers"

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Metal button with hanging small gold colored metal bell, commemorating the Portsmouth Sesquicentennial celebration June 5 - 12, 1965. On December 29, 1814 the Ohio legislature passed an act to incorporate the town of Portsmouth in Scioto County.…

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Off-white folded paper with red and black print. Upper left corner is logo illustration by Clarence Carter. On back: logo of pageant actors.

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Beige tickets with red print for toll travel one-way across the U S Grant Bridge connecting Ohio and Kentucky over the Ohio River by Route 23. The bridge became toll-free in 1974. One side: A/1 State Bridge Commission of Ohio, Name of Bridge, Use,…

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Red, white and blue metal pin advertising the River Days N.O.A. Boat Race in 1966.

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White and yellow lapel button with blue print, bell attached. "1815-1965, June 5-12, Portsmouth, Ohio, Sesquicentennial, Miss Sesquicentennial Belle."
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