by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Mar 14, 2024 | Announcements, Events, Photographs
Every election year brings challenges, surprises and some stand-out personalities. The 2024 Athenæum Lecture Series focuses in on electoral issues and people of importance to the electoral process, including the voter. As first in the nation, New Hampshire’s...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Mar 12, 2021 | Announcements, Library, Photographs
By Research Librarian Katy Sternberger Evidently, Doris Moore was known for asking questions in history class. Her “talent” was recognized in the ninth grade “class will” published in the Portsmouth Herald when she graduated from Portsmouth Junior High School...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Oct 14, 2020 | Announcements, Photographs
By Photographic Collections Manager James Smith For nearly 50 years, Bartolomeo “Bartolo” Guiducci (1892-1963) and his wife Caterina Mansini (1885-1972) ran a grocery store in the heart of Portsmouth’s old North End, and yet little is known about the couple...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Sep 17, 2020 | Announcements, Photographs
By Keeper Tom Hardiman Recently Sherry Wood wrote an article about how the Vaughan Street Urban Renewal Project removed neighborhoods and rerouted streets to create the Bridge Street parking lot. While some Portsmouth vistas have been altered suddenly and...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Jul 29, 2020 | Announcements, Photographs
By Photographic Collections Manager James Smith The history of the Rev. Samuel Langdon House is linked to two recent social media posts: Wentworth Cheswill (posted July 21) and the First Natonal grocery store (posted May 22). Serendipitously, these two social...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Jun 11, 2020 | Announcements, Photographs
By Photographic Collections Manager James Smith Pictured here is the relic of the former Portsmouth Bath House in the North End, as identified in this c. 1898 photo album. [Small photograph collection, PS855] In the summer of 1804, the Portsmouth Bath House...
