Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured is an image indicating eighteen years of growth for the Drew, Selby & Company. Three images are shown with years below to show the company's expansion. Left Corner: Company building from 1877 to 1881;…
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured: Newspaper article entitled "A Walk About Town in the Olden Days" Cheap Marketing, Old Citizens Recalled
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured is a typed page giving information about a local, well known serving lady named "Aunt Piety." Paradise Alle; Charlotte Weaver; Frank White; Portsmouth Planing Mill; Mayor Charles C. Glidden; A. Miller;…
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured is a typed page with information about camp religious meetings that were held at "Big Run" around 1875. Big Run station became Wakefield in honor of Reverend Wakefield. reverend Wakefield; James Cutlip;…
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured is a typed page giving details about "Father" McDowell. He served as superintendent of Bigelow Sunday School when the church was on Second (2nd) Street. General Jackson; Lady Washington; James Hannahs;…
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page: "Father" McDowell, George M. Appel- a gentleman and a Christian, and Amanda Pursell. Mrs. Pursell organized the first Ladies Aid Society at the outbreak of the Civil War. They held the first Memorial Service in…
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page 195. Shown is a typed page detailing events in the life of "Happy Joe" Jeffords, "Commander in Chief" of the Canal boats that brought corn to the distillery on the west side. Cole's Park; Deloss Larkins; Union…
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page: colorized postcard of a riverboat traveling on the Ohio Canal.
Article about the good qualities of Portsmouth in the Emigrants Directory.
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured is typed page giving details about the M. E. Church on Twelfth (12th) Street; Ad for J. B. Nichols & Co. at the corner of Third and Market Streets. Colored M. E. Church; Pastor Johnson; Forsythe's Grove…
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured is typed page giving details about musical groups in Portsmouth. Professor Thime, violin teacher with a studio at Wilhelm's; "Mazurka;" Will Holmes; John Cook; Will Irwin; Ira Wyles; Edward Julian; Ohio…
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page.Black and white photo with the caption "T. M. Lynn Thanks for the Buggy Ride." Below is a black and white with names beneath: Adam Bernard, Henry, Leo George, Frank L. Aloysius, Charles A., Herman M.
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;…