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Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured is a cut page from Pictorial Portsmouth of the Portsmouth Veneer and Panel Company at the corner of Mill and Gay Streets. It specialized in the manufacturing of glass and panes for windows and veneers.

Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Typed page giving the ending of the information on the Massie Block Fire of 1871. Bottom story: the beginnings of Pea Nut Johnny's Pie Emporium and his customers. Martin Timmonds; David David; George Davis Jr.;…

Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured us a newspaper article from the Portsmouth Blade giving details about the 1913 Flood on March 30, 1913.

Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Typed page giving the ending of the information on the Massie Block Fire of 1871. Bottom story: the beginnings of Pea Nut Johnny's Pie Emporium and his customers. Martin Timmonds; David David; George Davis Jr.;…

Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured: Wedding Invitation for Charl Thompson and Oscar W. Newman on June 19, 1894 at All Saints' Church; Graduation Announcement for the Commencement Exercises for the Class of 1894 at the Grand Opera House

Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. typed page giving details about some Portsmouth musings: After school hours; M & S Timmond's Bakery; Joe Jefferson's love of horses; Marklem's Stables; John McCarty in M & S Timmonds' Bakery; Taylor House; David…

Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured is a Goodbye Meeting for the Angle Family and Laura and Myra Wells at the First Baptist Church on March 30, 1884; Twenty- Third Reunion of the P. H. S. A. A. (1869-1891) on June 12, at the Pythian Hall

Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Typed page giving details of a night in 1878 when local talent put on "Ten Nights in a Bar-room" at Wilhelm's Opera House. Misses Peebles; Wilhelm's Opera House; John M. Higgens; Lutz Art Gallery; Dave Gates;…

Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured is an image of when the corner stone for the Second Presbyterian Church was laid. The church was located at the corner of Waller and Eighth (8th) Streets. Bottom image: men of the U. S. Post Office with…

Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Shown is a typed page giving details of the Biggs House- Massie Block fire of 1871 and information about the Hamilton-Peebles Free Reading Rooms, originally organized in Thomas P. Brown's home. Later this became…

Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured is a black and white photo of Lawrence Neudoerfer, Portsmouth citizen. Also shown is the back of a postcard, unknown date, with a small black and white image of a man in the upper corner.

Photo image of scanned scrapbook page: typed page giving details about the first observance of Decoration Day in Portsmouth. "Y" conducted in the Barton; Dr. Gault; General J. Warren Kiefer; Amanda Pursell; W. M. Pursell; C. P. Tracy; Hal Pursell;…