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Black & white 1958 photo showing a diesel passenger train leaving the Portsmouth N & W station

Black & white photo of recently completed Wayne Hills apartment buildings, dated 7-15-1941

Black and white photo of Market Square in the 1907 flood- looking from Second (2nd) Street.

Black & white photo of a line of many people walking across the frozen Ohio river to the Kentucky side, the winter of 1918.

Sepia photo of two men with a structure made of corn husks, etc. at the Korn Karnival which was held in Portsmouth every fall from 1913 until 1917 when it was suspended due to World War I.

Black and White photo of the interior of Bill Hedges' Auto Brake Service at 1511 Gallia Street in Portsmouth

Colored image on the Fireproof Hotel Hurth at the corner of Third (3rd) and Chillicothe Streets. Built in 1923 by Adolph Hurth, it had 107 rooms with adjoining baths with hot and cold running water. It also had a barber shop, a pressing room and a…

black & white photo image of church building at 1118 Hutchins Street, Portsmouth

Colored image of the first U.S. Grant Bridge, Portsmouth and the Scioto River north of Portsmouth. Also known as the Fullerton Bridge, it was opened in 1927 as a toll bridge, became toll free in 1974, and was demolished in 2001 in preparation for the…

Colored image of Williams Shoe Factory, 830 Murray Street. It was founded March 7, 1922 by three Portsmouth brothers - A. Graves, Forest L., and Paul G. Williams, sons of W. Grant Williams. In 1935 they purchased the Excelsior Shoe Company building…

Colored image of the library with shrubs and trees

Colored image of golf course of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks country club on route 73, Rush Township