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Black & white image of library building

Sepia photo of home. Note on back: "Ben Scidel House, Sec 8 Bloom Twp near Pinkerman"

Colored image of Children's Home building built in 1876 on Grant Street property that now is part of Mound Park. It closed in 1921 when Hillcrest Children's home opened in Wheelersburg.

Colorized image of the steel plant in New Boston. Levi D.York built the steel mill in New Boston after his Portsmouth mill burned in 1898. It was known as the Portsmouth Steel Company from 1902-1909 and the Whitaker-Glessner Company from 1909-1920.

Leather Postcard showing the old stone post office built at the corner of Gallia & Chillicothe Streets in 1891. It was expanded in 1914, closed in 1936, and razed in 1956 for the construction of a five story Montgomery-Ward Department Store.

Leather Postcard

Leather postcard of the original Portsmouth High School circa 1902-1910. (Davis High School) It was the residence of George Davis at the corner of Gallia & Waller Streets. It was razed for the construction of the PHS high school in 1912.

Black & white photo image of men in a band in the parade

Black & white photo image of the building- two men on the street- houses next to the church

Black & white photo image of the drug store on 9th (Ninth) and Waller- address on window is 177 Block.

Black and white photo image of Wallace Mill bridge on Long Run county road 222 three miles east of Minford, flash flood destroyed in 1961

Black and White Photo Image