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Sepia-tone portrait photo image of Wilhelm. Photo glued to tan matboard. J. Ph. Wilhelm immigrated from Germany in 1833. He located in Portsmouth in 1846, and opened a saddle and harness business located on Front St.

Sepia-toned portrait photo image of Charles Weber. Photo glued to matboard. Weber was born in Germany and immigrated here with his parents at the age of 8 (1855). He had a shoe business for 42 years. He died July 30, 1927.

Sepia-toned portrait photo image of Herman Huels. Photo glued onto matboard. Huels was born in 1834 in Prussia. He came to Portsmouth in 1870 and purchased The Dye House from F. Zehner. He was a pioneer dyer of Southern Ohio. He died in 1927.

Sepia-toned portrait photo image of the "Honorable" Theodore K. Funk. Photo glued to matboard. Funk was born in 1848 on a farm in Champaign Co., Ohio. He graduated from Ohio Wesleyan College in 1871 and went on to law. He came to Portsmouth in 1873…

Sepia-toned portrait photo image of Charles Robertson. Photo is glued to mat. Robertson was a pastor at 2nd Presbyterian Church from 1909-1914. Later he served as "Supply Pastor" for 16 months until he left for N.Y. in 1946. He died in Connecticut in…

Off-white, onion skin document with green and black fonts. Image of a train and an image of a man. Preferred stock no. 1326. Stock information on back. A Northern US Railroad that was mentioned regularly in the Portsmouth Times.

Black and white 1928 McDermott Elementary class photo taken from the Portsmouth Daily Times in 1986. Names listed on 2nd page.

Black and white photo of an elementary class of Highland in 1933. First Row, left to right: Cecil Miller, Raymond Walker, Bobby Fuller, Betty Jean Lamb, Frank Jackson, Louise Stout, Wiladine Richards, Carl Adams, Peggy Simms, Mary Delabar, Nancy…

Black and white photo of an elementary class at Highland in 1935. Front row: Burrin Miller, Alice, Peggy Simms, Louise Stout, Ralph Fuller, Carl Adams, Carl Robinson, Frank Jackson, -, Jack McDonald, Betty Jean Lamb. Second row: Jane Ruggles, Robert…

Black and white photo of an unidentified class at Highland School in 1936.

A black and white photo of an unidentified class at Highland School in 1932. It's attached to a cardboard border.

Black and white photo of a fourth grade class at Highland School in 1926. First row, left to right: Ellison Helbig, Maurice Hicks, Shelma Nichols, -, - Newman, Madaline Ames, Helen Elliott, Anna Bigelow, Cloa Ruth Shela, Emma Moore, Marvin Spence,…