Buildings in photograph include: Columbia Theater on Gallia Street, Royal Savings & Loan on Gallia Street and First National Bank at the corner of Gallia & Chillicothe. View is looking west.
Sepia photo image of crowd gathered for William Howard Taft's appearance. Fred J. Carr, Jeweler and Optician, was located at 424 Chillicothe per the 1912 Portsmouth City Directory
Sepia photo image of man driving a float with sign "Greetings of the West End" honoring the West end business men. Doerr's Auto Supplies was on Second (2nd) street in Portsmouth.
Sepia photo image of men and boys marching east at Second and Court Sts, Portsmouth, Ohio, en route to the 10th (Tenth) St. train station to embark for Columbus to depart for the Spanish-American War.
Colorized image of the bridge and the Scioto River with men fishing in a boat. This was the fifth (5th) bridge built over the Scioto River. It was a wooden floor pier bridge to replace the suspension bridge that fell in 1884 killing two children. This bridge washed out in the flood of 1913 with no fatalities.
