Scanned page 220 from Henry A. Lorberg scrapbook containing typed text detailing the history of The Swan Hotel (also known as the Union Hotel) run by John Fecker on Front Street. The Buckeye House (later the location of the ice company plant) run by James McVey which also contained business rooms and the post office.
Blow: clipped ad for Ehmans The Live Store
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured: typed page with information about early hotels in Portsmouth. Biggs House; Swan Hotel; Band of Cincinnati; Watson House; West End Hotels; Burgess Steel Mill; Reitz Saw Mill; Moore's Foundry; M. & C. Railway Shops and station; Grassman's; Wait's Furniture Factories; Eberhardt's Stove Foundry; Gas Works; Muhlheiser's Brewery; River Travel
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured: typed page giving information about early fire departments and their equipment; Sam K. Huston Jr.; Mr. Salt; First Fire Department Chief John Wilson; Edward McAleer; William Williamson; A. J. Cropper; Fred Goltz; Thomas Pyles; John R. Lynn; Charles Hancock; W. A. Cropper; Fred Goltz; Steamer Eagle; David Hahn, father of Mrs. Balzer Andres; Cornelius Squire McCoy; Buckeye House
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page 192. Typed page giving information about the early African American churches. Prior to 1844, methodists used the "Academy." They then combined with the Spencer Chapel to form the Allen Chapel in 1837. John Cooper; Wesley Benson; J. Q. Weaver; Aunt Piety; Anna Kearns; Ben Johnson; William Harris. Reverend Peter Tolliver; Reverent Stansbury; Reverend Coleman.
Pictured: George J. Schmidt and P. M. Streich, cut from Pictorial Portsmouth.
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured: Earliest "Extra" in the Portsmouth Daily Times: Massie Block Fire (1871); F. E. Duduit Sr.; Capt. Sam'l Currie; Rev. Franklin
