Browse Items (291 total)

  • Collection: Historic Item Collection

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Red cloth children's size small T-shirt with white print and illustration. Otway Redbirds 1990.

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Green red or green/brown paper stamps required by merchants to buy from the state and provide to customers when they were charged state tax. Consumers were encouraged to collect them and give them to the schools or charity. Then organizations would…

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Red, white (aged), and blue stamp book for ration stamps. Book has red 10 cent stamps. Book for Roy Lenis.

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Discolored cedar chest large enough for small items like jewelry. Inside "Lewis Furniture Co." is engraved.

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A mounted metal gold colored key on black iron base that was given to dignitaries visiting the city of Portsmouth, Ohio. Aged, rust covering the item.

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Blue and yellow metal button for Notre Dame with blue print, gold football, and a purple and gold ribbon attached. "Notre Dame."

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Clear glass bottle, engraved "George Fisher Druggist Portsmouth, Ohio" Bottom of glass is engraved "W.T & CO" The drugstore was located on the corner of Sixth and Chillicothe Street.

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A blue plastic thimble with black print. Has Wheelersburg Dry Cleaners printed on the front, along with Phone SCI. 1041-X.

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White metal button with red and blue print on front. Commemorates Portsmouth River Days Boat Races in 1966, on August 31st to September 5th.

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Yellow and red lapel button with black print. "Shaving Permit, 1815-1965, Portsmouth, Ohio, Sesquicentennial, June 5-12." Shaving Permits were a way to raise money, typically for a celebration, and were required for those who didn't want to grow a…

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Metal shoe button hook engraved "Bond Street Spats". Bond Street Spats was a company in Portsmouth, Ohio that made spats and sold them in Marting's.

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Aged, metal small anchor. Engraved: "River Days, Ports. O., 1966." Made for Portsmouth River Days for the year 1966.
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