Black and white photo of the Portsmouth Interstate Business College football team photo. Names listed: Front row- Guy Cole, Frances McHarg, Davis, Roy Conley, Fred Mulkey, Tussey. 2nd row- Johnny Chaffin (manager), Homer Carver, Tom Schwamberger, Charles Schellinger, Bruce Nourise, Gene Bennett, Leo Blackburn. The PIBS was located in the Kricker Building at 813 Gallia Street
Colorized image of the Holy Redeemer church at 1325 Gallia Street. Holy Redeemer was founded when a need arose for the separation of the English and German-speaking congregations. In 1853 the Irish Catholic Congregation built their first Holy Redeemer building on Sixth (6th) Street. This building on Gallia was constructed in 1905.
Colored aerial image of the Portsmouth Steel Company and homes at New Boston, Ohio River and Kentucky in distance. This mill was known as Crucible Steel Company of America before 1902, Portsmouth Steel Company from 1902-1909, and Whitaker-Glessner Company from 1909-1920.
Colored image of Bank at the south east corner of Gallia and Chillicothe Streets. This is the first half completed in 1912. In about 1924 an identical addition was added to the south side where the Lyric Theater had stood.
Colorized image of the factory. The 1920 Portsmouth City Directory lists the locations of the Irving Drew Company at 1658-1662 Eleventh (11th) Street and 533-537 Front Street. This image is the Welt and Turn Factory at 1658-1662 Eleventh (11th) Street according to "Illustrated and Descriptive Portsmouth, Ohio" a publication of the early 1900's.
Colorized image of the Lincoln School building on the northwest corner of Kinneys Lane & Waller Street. It was opened in 1914 and enlarged in 1922. Lincoln was Portsmouth's first integrated elementary because of overcrowding at the Washington School in 1953. The building was closed in 2000 and razed in 2003. The location is now the SOMC Cancer Center
Colorized photo image of the Young Women's Christian Association building at 902 Second (2nd) Street. The forty-three room Grimes Hotel was built by H. S. Grimes in 1907 at the corner of Second (2nd) and Gay Streets. The Y.W.C.A. rented it in 1912 for their use. It became Grimes Apartments from about 1922 to 1966 when it was razed for the expansion of Ohio University Portsmouth Branch (now Shawnee)
Colorized photo image of the trolley station at the entrance to Millbrook Park. One of the trolley cars that traveled from New Boston to Ironton is shown. Levi York began developing the 85 acre park in 1899. It was severely damaged in the flood and was totally dismantled by 1935.
