colorized portrait image of Martha Jean and friend Velma. Written in cursive at bottom "Swell pals Jean and Velma." Surrounded with card stock-like frame.
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured is a black and white photograph of Martin Beebe Gilbert. He was born in New York in 1816. He came to Portsmouth with his family in 1830. His father, Giles Gilbert, was in the grocery business as well as the steamboat parts trade. Martin organized and began the M. B. Gilbert Grocery Company located in Second (2nd) Street. A fire destroyed the building in 1910, and the business was moved further down Second (2nd) street.
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page 419. Martin Crain; Sam. J. Huston; Montague Julian; Dr. I.M. Wright; Thomas Keefe; J.J. Culbertson; Herman Kauntsleben; Mrs. B.R. Julian; William Kerr; Frank Kehrer; J.W. Grooms; C.D. Elden's; Merchants' Block; Edward Kelly; C.P. Tracy & Co; Patrick Kendrick; St. Charles; Hank Burton; James Hannahs; Wellington Kinney; Henry Kinney; Sarah Kettles; Frank Kricker; Thomas Dugan & Co; Gus Laubley; Fred Doerr
