Donate/Loan Items
Are you cleaning out Grandma’s attic?
Please remember that the Portsmouth Historical Society welcomes donations that inform others about our town and Portsmouth families. History doesn’t have to be about times long past, so save your past for future generations.
Ideas for Donations
Paper
- Yearbooks
- Photographs
- Letters
- Blueprints
- Genealogies
- Scrapbooks
- Diaries
Household Items
- Old-fashioned kitchen items
- Furniture
- Tools
- Paintings
- Student lunch boxes
- Book cases
Textiles
- Wedding Attire
- Bonnets
- Aprons
- Needlework
- Quilts
Community Artifacts
- Flags & Maps
- Organization pins
- Event Programs
- Award Ribbons & Trophies
- Signs
- Postcards
“One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to collect sagas and heap cairns. This instinct as to the enduring value of the past is, one might say, the very basis of civilization.” –John Jay Chapman, Memories and Milestones