Black and white photo image of the theater at Millbrook. Pencil writing on front. This building was actually a theater located just inside the park gates at 4200 Rhodes Avenue. It was built in 1905 with a seating capacity of five hundred. The Casino was the prime social gathering place in New Boston in the early 1900's. Plays, films, and concerts were shown all year for entertainment.
Colorized photo image of the inn/resort with people on the porch. The Inn was owned and operated by William Crichton, a native of Scotland and steel mill worker in the late 1800's and early 1900's. The Inn was located on a hill on the west side of Route 104 near the Norfolk &Western Railway passenger station in Rushtown. It closed in 1919.
Colorized photo image of the steel mill showing smoke stacks and body of water. Slight eraser smudge at top. The New Boston steel mill was known as the Whitaker-Glessner Company from 1909 to 1920, and the Wheeling Steel Corporation from 1920 to 1946.
Black & white portrait photograph.
Associated with First Federal Savings & Loan Association and the George E. Kricker Insurance Company, Portsmouth, Ohio.
Black and white photo image of young Hetzel leading two cows. The matboard behind the photo is torn at the corners. John was born about 1899 to Jacob Hetzel and Anna Maria Geisler in Portsmouth, Ohio. His father was in the butcher business, most likely explaining why John shown here with a pair of cows.
Black and white group photo image of a sales conference at Lunkenheimers in Cincinnati.
Attended by M.J. Ruggles (#11) and C.A. Leever (#22).
Maltby J. Ruggles began his employment with the company in 1910. In 1948, he became the president.
