Black and white photo (copy) image of the store along the Ohio and Erie Canal at Rushtown. Samuel Stewart English opened his grocer/ mercantile business May 22, 1875.
Copper colored token "C.M. & G. B. 2 1/2 in. trade" on front. "1015 11th St., Portsmouth, O." on the back. City Directory shows this as George Barbis and Charles Mihalitsis Billiards.
Black & white photo image looking from flooded Fifth Street toward the First National Bank Building (before addition) and the Lyric Theater on Chillicothe Street. Taken during the 1913 flood.
Cream colored card with instructions to continue the process of joining the Tribe of Ben-Hur by going for a required medical examination. The fraternal insurance organization of Ben-Hur was incorporated in Indiana in 1894 with the consent of General Lew Wallace. The group sold life insurance in 30 states in 1920. The Tribe of Ben-Hur first organized in Portsmouth in 1900.
Black & white photo the flooded Gallia Street Esplanade in 1937 showing the front door of the Security Central Bank building and the side of the Royal Savings and Loan.
