Photo image of scanned scrapbook page 86. Typewritten information on Little Gem M. E. Church (1875); Pastor Johnson; Camp Meeting (1875) Micklethwait's Grove; Henry Amberg; articles on L . Janney and B. R. Miles; photos officer John Woods; John Cooper; Charles S. Smith
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page 18. Typed page: 'Souvenir of Portsmouth, Ohio'; General U. S. Grant; Capt. Josiah Shackelford; John G. Whittier; Mr. & Mrs. D. N. Murray (26 February)
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured is a typed page with information about camp religious meetings that were held at "Big Run" around 1875. Big Run station became Wakefield in honor of Reverend Wakefield. reverend Wakefield; James Cutlip; Scioto Valley Railway; Reverend W. H. Middleton; Valley Inn; Davy Hahn; Colonel Newton Warwich; Okey Johnson
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page . Pictured: "Celoron Proclaiming the Sovereignty of France" From the Mural Painting by H. H. Wessel in the Scioto County Courthouse; Judge Beck's Commission as Judge of the Supreme Court
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.
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured is a newspaper clipping of a story about a father talking to his daughter about Santa Claus entitled "Santa Claus Live"
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured is a color images of a cabin with a matching paper beneath describing the scene: "There is No Place Like Portsmouth, O." A poem about a person's home.