The four-paged paper program (Number 65. Friday, February 27, 1903) for Portsmouth, Ohio’s Grand Opera House for the 1902-1903 season. The first page includes advertisements for local businesses such as John Vetter, a tailor, and Haas, Schwartz & Co., a retailer of suits, overcoats, and trousers, and jeweler CH Harris. The program also mentions a …
In February 2023, during a digitization project in Madison Township, Scioto County, Ohio, a postcard postmarked November 12, 1926 surfaced. Addressed by George Piersol Bennett, the township clerk of 22 years, it affirmed the birth of Harold Emerson Allen to Clarence Allen and Jennie Hosier on August 22, 1926. Signed by Clarence Allen, the postcard …
In the bustling streets of southern Ohio, a tale of entrepreneurial spirit unfolds, woven through the decades by the hands of visionaries Joseph Lehman and Henry Richman. It all began in 1856 when they opened a modest clothing factory on the corner of Front & Market, laying the groundwork for what would become a retail …
Today’s piece of ephemera is a program dated Thursday night, January 3, 1901, for the Young Ladies’ Court of Allen Chapel in Portsmouth, Ohio. It featured a recitation by Florence Farley, a solo by Mr. Clifford Peters, an instrumental solo by Miss Oddie Black, another recitation by Miss Bertha Warren and Miss Daisy Farley, a …
Today’s piece of ephemera is a certificate to Scout Howard Ramey who served with honor on the Boy Scout A, B, C, Traffic Safety Police at High School in Portsmouth, Ohio. This certificate was signed by the President of the Exchange Club, Dr. Charles Lee Ferguson, Chairman of the Club A, B, C, Committee, Thomas …
“Tragedy halted a marriage planned for Greenup Saturday night when Misses Kathryn Truesdell, 18, of Friendship was injured fatally in an automobile accident on Route 125 about a half mile west of Friendship about 3:30 PM yesterday.” “She died from a broken neck while en route to Mercy hospital in an automobile.” “Miss Truesdell and …
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 …
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.”
The other day I purchased this 8×10″ black and white photograph from a local antique store, mostly because it had some names on the back and because the restaurant, the American Restaurant, is a place I had been too myself. This mid-century photograph was taken by Hoke’s Studio, Homer W. Adkins, Manager, which was located …
I’m thinking about starting to include project updates here just to keep folks up to date with what we are doing and what we have done. One of our newest projects is to convert five one hundred-slide carriages into five hundred 2400 DPI TIFF images. Any information written on the slide margin gets added as …