Sepia tone photo image looking east on Fifth (5th) Street toward the First National Bank (before addition) and the Lyric Theater Chillicothe Street. The Lyric would be razed to allow the bank to double in size by 1924. Signs for Hass Dry Cleaners and Friel's Automotible Garage are on the south side of Fifth (5th) Street.
Black & white photo image looking from flooded Fifth Street toward the First National Bank Building (before addition) and the Lyric Theater on Chillicothe Street. Taken during the 1913 flood.
Sepia tone photo image of Chillicothe Street looking south toward the Ohio River. The First National Bank, constructed in 1912, is on the left at the corner of Gallia Street.
Black & white photo image of Tribe of Ben-Hur meeting hall. The fraternal insurance organization of Ben-Hur was incorporated in Indiana in 1894 with the consent of General Lew Wallace. The group sold life insurance in 30 states in 1920. The Tribe of Ben-Hur first organized in Portsmouth in 1900.
Black & white photo image of Chillicothe Street north of Gallia. The Old Stone Post Office is at right on the corner of Gallia and Chillicothe Streets and beyond is the Play House in the former Sixth Street Methodist Church building .
Cream colored card with instructions to continue the process of joining the Tribe of Ben-Hur by going for a required medical examination. The fraternal insurance organization of Ben-Hur was incorporated in Indiana in 1894 with the consent of General Lew Wallace. The group sold life insurance in 30 states in 1920. The Tribe of Ben-Hur first organized in Portsmouth in 1900.
Black & white photo the flooded Gallia Street Esplanade in 1937 showing the front door of the Security Central Bank building and the side of the Royal Savings and Loan.
Colored photo image of the (Good) Fellowship Club building at 825 Sixth (6th) Street. Employees of the Whitaker-Glessner Steel Company in New Boston formed this club for social and educational purposes according to a Portsmouth Daily Times article on page four, Wednesday, December 20, 1916. The building was for sale in the Times in 1921. Attached to the back of this card is a black & white photograph of Capt. Coleman Gilliland (1837-1908) in a military uniform. He was a second lieutenant in the 56th O.V.I. and later worked in several positions in the local shoe industry.
Color photo image of the interior of the Security Central Bank at 825 Gallia Street. After the bank moved into the vacant Montgomery Ward Department store in 1976, this space became the Southern Ohio Museum and Cultural Center.
Sepia tone photo image of the Security Bank building built in 1917 at 825 Gallia Street. In 1918 the bank moved from 828 Gallia Street across the street to this new building. It became Security Central Bank in 1930 following a merger. In 1976 the bank moved to the previous Montgomery Ward building on the Esplanade. The Southern Ohio Museum and Cultural Center opened in this building in 1979.
Black & white photo image of the Norfolk & Western Railway Depot at the northwest corner of Tenth (10th) and Waller Streets in the 1913 flood. N & W used this depot from 1901 to 1931 when the new terminal was built. It was used for storage until it was razed in 1968.
