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 | Nov 1, 2019 | Announcements, Events
Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Research Library In 2018, the Athenaeum received the photographic collection of prolific, local photographer Douglas J. Armsden (1918-2009). Armsden’s portfolio captured the essence of the mid-20th century Seacoast region of...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Oct 4, 2019 | Announcements, Photographs
By James Smith, Photographic Collections Manager This past Sunday, we shared the above image on social media of the Portsmouth Junior High band, all of whom were unidentified, at the Whipple School on the corner of Summer and State streets, c.1920. [PS2659] On...
