Portsmouth Treasures: A Century of Collecting at the Portsmouth Historical Society

View a special group of treasures this summer, up close and personal, at the John Paul Jones Historic House Museum at 43 Middle Street.

Portsmouth Historical Society has been receiving, preserving, studying, restoring, and exhibiting local items since it opened in 1920: a map of Portsmouth’s “compact” downtown region from 1813, a circular maple table that once belonged to an enslaved woman, a baseball bat from a losing game in 1866, and more… Find them all this summer in the exhibition “Portsmouth Treasures: A Century of Collecting at the Portsmouth Historical Society.”

[Image: “Before and after” images of the portrait of Mary T. Holbrook Cheever, donated by Kimberley Leach, a descendant of the sitter. Identified by scholar Deborah M. Child as the work of Edwin Plummer, and restored with funds generously provided by Michaela Neiro, Deborah M. Child, Susan Zukert, and Lisa Mehlin. Photos courtesy of Mehlin Conservation.]