Today’s gallery of images from the past comes as donation from life-long Portsmouth resident Mary Martha Questel, who captured these photographs in and around the Chillicothe Street area of Portsmouth in 1995.
All of the Kids in Henley
This 1912 photo postcard from Elizabeth to Miss Mary McManaway of Lucasville reads as follows: “Dear Mary: This is our Picnic Party taken July 20 isn’t it a dandy ?! This is all the kids there are in Henley. I wish Clell was on it. We did not get them until Sunday. Please don’t be …
New Boston, Ohio Daughters of the American Revolution
This undated group photograph taken by Homer. W Adkins, manager of Hoke’s Studio located at 1200 Lakeview Avenue in New Boston, Ohio, states on the reverse side that it is a group photograph of New Boston’s Daughters of the American Revolution. The hints as to who these people are: “Row 2 Mary Hazel Floyd.”
Ephemera Friday #8: Banish Work
Today’s ephemera is an advertisement by the Marting’s department store in Portsmouth, Ohio, for the “Premier Duplex” electric vacuum cleaner that was produced by the Electric Vacuum Cleaner Company Inc., of Cleveland, Ohio. This style of advertisement for the Premier Duplex was common throughout the later 1920’s.
Let Flowers Be Her Valentine
This beautiful advertisement by Gustav William “Gus” Putzek, owner of Knost Floral Company at 1229 17th Street, Portsmouth, Ohio, got right to the point: “Thrill her with red roses. Capture her heart with gay violets. Delight her with a bright bouquet of carnations. We have a grand selection -have us gather and arrange your Valentine …
Ephemera Friday #7: Karl Zoellner Promoted
Today’s Ephemera Friday comes from Portsmouth, Ohio’s Public Schools. On June 11th 1897, Miss Emma M. Cramer presented the above certificate to a 13-year-old Karl Zoellner. This Certificate of Promotion entitled young Zoellner to admission to Advanced Grammar, which given his age, would be equivalent to today’s middle school. Interestingly, the certificate states that he …
Ephemera Friday #6: Eastland Theatre
Today’s Ephemera Friday, features a complimentary pass to Portsmouth, Ohio’s Eastland Theatre that was once located at 1804 Eleventh Street. Did you ever visit the Eastland? What film did you watch?
A Gift for the New Year
On this last day of January we can surely appreciate the frigid picture illustrated for an 1897 calendar produced for Storck & Hopkins, dealers in stoves and ranges, who were located at 114 West Second Street, Portsmouth, Ohio. While the snow and ice may hang heavy on the barren trees and windswept fields the back …