black & white typed text scanned from scrapbook,
Local History information. C. D. Elden; Thomas Simpson; William McFarlin; Lloyd Henson; Colonel Kinney; Mt. Tabor; John T. Miller; Mike Freal; St. Nicholas; Hotel Portsmouth; Colonel Varner; Varner House; hotels; Conrad Westphal; Taft's Drug Store; Judge J. S. Pollitt; David Hull; Kinney's Bank; Button Scott; Bob Lloyd
black & white typed text page scanned from scrapbook.
Local History trivia. Wizard Oil Medicine Company; Clara Bell; Chase Kennedy; Portsmouth Tribune; Floyd Smith; J. Okey Johnson; Haverly's Minstrels and Sam T. Jack; Lydia Elliott; Heid's Photo Car; Masonic Temple; Barney Gately; Church of the Holy Redeemer; John Abbott; Anton Starks; Atlantic Garden; Freytag's Orchestra
Scanned page 129 from Henry A. Lorberg scrapbook containing typed text about John Suter who volunteered to wait by the Ohio River to ensure The Steamer Fitz John Porter, on which many people had been infected with Yellow Fever, did not land at Portsmouth.
Scanned page 130 from Henry A. Lorberg scrapbook containing typed text about John Suter who volunteered to wait by the Ohio River to ensure The Steamer Fitz John Porter, on which many people had been infected with Yellow Fever, did not land at Portsmouth.
Scanned page 131 from Henry A. Lorberg scrapbook containing typed text about John Suter who volunteered to wait by the Ohio River to ensure The Steamer Fitz John Porter, on which many people had been infected with Yellow Fever, did not land at Portsmouth.
Scanned page 132 from Henry A. Lorberg scrapbook containing typed text about John Suter who volunteered to wait by the Ohio River to ensure The Steamer Fitz John Porter, on which many people had been infected with Yellow Fever, did not land at Portsmouth. Also includes a clipping of an ad for W. W. Gates Milk.
Scanned unnumbered page from Henry A. Lorberg scrapbook containing black & white images of "Egg" Gates; Ray McCord; and an unidentified group of three men.
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 Greenlawn in 1862. Also organized the Monumental Society to erect the Soldiers Monument in Tracy Park. Because she was a widow, and had no son, she hired an agent to go to war to fight for the cause, but she never wanted to know what became of the soldier.
All images cut from Pictorial Portsmouth.
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.
