Colorized photo image of page scanned from scrapbook. Pictured are Joseph N. Murray, Mabert Avenue: farm home of Charles Brombacker, 1617 Mabert Road, and the Millbrook Casino. 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.
Off-white, aged paper stock certificate for the Millbrook Building Company. W.A. Hush is a certified owner of one shore. Blue artwork and scrollwork and seal on front, Green on back, torn on folds.
Scanned unnumbered page from Henry A. Lorberg scrapbook containing black & white images of Millbrook Bridge; George D. Selby; and an unidentified house.
Black and white photo negative of the baseball park in Millbrook Park. The ball park was home to the "Shoemakers," the Portsmouth team of the Ohio State League. It had a large covered grandstand for spectators to view the games. The ball diamond was beside the roller coaster in Millbrook Park. The stacks of the nearby Steel Mill are seen in the background.
Black & white photo image.
on back : Designed to pump sewage and force it underwater into the Ohio River when the river rises to a stage of 43 feet. Beneath this superstructure is a well holding two electric engines capable of pumping 12,000 gallons of sewage. The reservoir beneath this pumping station holds 160,000 gallons of sewage and storm water. Cost of this station was 51,000 of which the WPA paid 40,000.
Black and white photo image of the mill and vault yard of the Taylor Stone Company. Picture taken January 1925 - Note large stock finished vaults for winter demand- The Taylor Stone Company McDermott, Ohio. "World's Largest Producers of Stone Burial Vaults"
Scanned page 43 from Henry A. Lorberg scrapbook containing a typed text narrative about military reunions in Portsmouth. A black & white image of C. W. Helfenstein. A copy of a note from the Treasurer of the Corporation of Portsmouth. Business clippings for R. Brunner & Co., Dry Goods and J. L. Treuthart, City Bookstore.
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Military Order; Loyal Legion of the United States; In Memoriam; William Wallace Reilly; Captain 30th Ohio Volunteer Infantry; 141st O.V.I.
