Colorized photo image scanned from scrapbook. Pictured are a postcard showing Moonlight on the Ohio River and a wedding invitation for Ophelia L. Murfin and J. V. L. Rodgers dated October 18, 1870 and held in the Washington Street M. E. Church.
Black and white photo image of page scanned from scrapbook.
Pictured are an unknown man and woman, an unknown group of women, Miss Gatterman, and the Home for the Portsmouth Cycling Club
Photo image of a poem read at the 30th Anniversary of the closing of the year by the Portsmouth Reading Club and a New Years' Note from J. Leigh Watkins, Walter M. Gibson, and John C. Reily
Photo image scanned from scrapbook. Dedication of the U. S. Grant Bridge (September 22, 1927) along with a group photo of unknown individuals and another unknown man in a photo.
Black and white photo image scanned from scrapbook.
Pictured: the beginning ofthe construction of the Scioto Valley Railway on City Hospital Ground in 1877/, John B., Grocery, contractor.
Blakc and white photo image scanned from scrapbook. Pictured are the Portsmouth Mission Building, located on Front and Court Streets, St. Charles Restaurant, Rev. Dr. W. H. Phelps, and W. B. Jackson.
Colorized photo image of image scanned from scrapbook. Pictured: Top: image of York Place. It was named for Levi York who started the rolling mills and Millbrook Park. York Place occupied the site of the Gaylord Rolling Mills, stretching from Front Street to Court and Chillicothe. Also pictured: Millbrook Pavillion, and the Selby Factory Flower Garden. This was located beside the Selby Shoe Factory. The 1920 Portsmouth City Directory lists The Selby Shoe Company location as Seventh (7th) Street from Findlay to John. Selbys closed in 1957. The building was razed in 1999.
Colorized photo image of page scanned from scrapbook. Pictured are Joseph N. Murray, Mabert Avenue: farm home of Charles Brombacker, 1617 Mabert Road, and the Millbrook Casino. This building was actually a theater located just inside the park gates at 4200 Rhodes Avenue. It was built in 1905 with a seating capacity of five hundred. The Casino was the prime social gathering place in New Boston in the early 1900's. Plays, films, and concerts were shown all year for entertainment.
Black and white photo image of page scanned from scrapbook. Pictured are an unknown individual, (top right) Sill Pursell: prominent Portsmouth citizen, and the First Presbyterian Church, dedicated for worship in 1851.
