Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured: En Route From Pittsburg, passing Portsmouth, O.: the Joe B. Williams towboat; Plaque for the Roosevelt Game Preserve
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured: typed page with information about the Gas Party. This was considered a Gala Event held at S. R. Ross's residence because it was close to the Gas Works and the first house to be illuminated in the city. Also listed are guests that attended the event. Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Robinson; Mr. and Mrs. W. A. hutchins; Aaron; Henry Philander; Washington; Eli and Peter Kinney and their wives; Mr. and MRs. John R. Turner; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Kendall; Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Oldfield; Mr. and Mrs. Eli Glover; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hall; Portsmouth Pageant Relic Room of John McMillan
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured: Letter to H. A. Lorberg from T. Bertrand Trexler. Letter thanks Lorberg for information he'd sent about a relative named Emanuel Trexler
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Typewritten page with more information about the Gas Party. First office on Market Street; Dr. Hempstead; L. C. Robinson; A. R. Gus Turley; Sam Maklem's Livery Stable; "Dan Rice", "Sam Patch" (horses); John Dice; Tom Lawson; Joe Jefferson; Tom Hall; S. R. Ross; first gas stove
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured: typewritten page with information about the Portsmouth Gas Company, organized in 1855. Office building at Eighth (8th) and Chillicothe Streets; Washington Kinney; Aaron Kinney; Incorporators of the company: Henry V. Barrington, John W. Glidden, S. R. Ross, J. V. Robinson, and A. V. Barringer; stockholders: L. C. Robinson, Washington Kinney, P. A. Iams, James Y. Gordon, and Samuel Reed, later years William Pursell and Frank B. Kehoe were interested.
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured: typewritten page with a continued list of teachers and some information about guests at the Biggs House. Miss Bannon; Miss Barklow; Miss McFarlin; Miss Gatterman; E. E. Ewing; Miss Rutter; Mrs. Mulligan; Miss Greene; Emma Bell; Miss Searl; Miss Draper; Miss Lewis; Miss Applegate; Miss Switzer; Miss Bonsall; Mrs. Dukes; Miss Lucy Hall; Miss Mattie Lynn; Mrs. McKeown; Miss Cotton; Miss Emily Ball; Biggs House; Orville Grant; Buckhorn Tannery; Cole's Basin; Galena Pike; Henry Clay; John Quincy Adams; Zacharia Taylor; Ole Bull (violinist); Josh Billings; Henry Ward Beecher; Phil Sheridan; McKinley; Hon. John Sherman; Rev. Russell Conwell; Eli Perkins; Gen. Kirkpatrick; Col Smith Russell; Tom Thumb
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Typewritten page with information about high school graduates and teachers, 1860-1875. 1860: George H. Bell; James S. Kehoe; Louis Terry; Emma P. Hunter; Fannie Waite; 1867: Frank S. Connolly; Richard Lewis; Mary Lemon; Sadie Waite; Anna Verner; 1869: Anna McIyntyre; Maggie Stewart; Jennie Fisher; Belle Whitney; Anna A. Lionbarger; Samuel Padan; James M. Jones; Will Crichton; A. O. Bing; W. G. Byerly; 1870: Mary E. Moore; George H. Holman; Frank B. Kehoe; William Bolton; 1871: Ettie Pursell; Dollie Pursell; Mary W. Collins; Flora A. Glidden; Ella S. Watson; R. R. Peebles; Frank Lloyd; John G. Miller; J. Orme Cole; Edward Raine Jr.; 1876: Reese Edwards; Joseph W. Fulton; Arthur Gower; W. H. Redford; Volney R. Rowe; John W. Wurster; Ella Bishop; Blanche Grimes; Emma Jones; Myra L. Kerr; Teachers: Superintendents White, Bolton, Poe, Campbell, Lowes, and Hudson; Teachers: Carl Huber; Mrs. Mary Davey; Miss Louise Knobel; Miss Bertha Weyl; Miss Kate Kinney; Herman Herms; Miss Minnie Burns; Miss Waller; Mrs. Glidden ; Mrs. Ashton; Miss Watkins; Miss Wheeler; Miss Johnson; Miss Bratt; Miss Burns; Miss Hayes; Mitt Kettle; Miss Moran; Prof. Petry; Mrs. J. W. Purdum; Miss Glover; Miss Varner; A. J. Buell; Miss Gunn; T. J. Cochran
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured: Newspaper advertisement for the Arlington Hotel at 154-156 Second (2nd) Street; photo A Second Church Mission, New Boston
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. typedwritten in black: Barnum's Circus: "Greatest Show on Earth; Barnum's time in Portsmouth. P. T. Barnum was a butcher before he went into the circus business. Text talks about various acts Barnum had like the famous Swedish Nightingale Jenny Lind, Tom Thumb, and Siamese Twins. When Ringling and Barnum came to Portsmouth, he visited with local butcher George Daum, who had a meat market. Ringling had a relative in Portsmouth: Mrs. McCadden
