Black and white photo negative of a group of people participating in the 1977 canoe races for Portsmouth River Days. Participants started in Lucasville and ended in Portsmouth on the Scioto River.
"The Ohio Valley is famous in song and story" is on card. Colorized photo image of first U.S. Grant Bridge opened in 1927 showing Kentucky, Portsmouth, Scioto River and hills in background. Also known as the Fullerton Bridge, it was a toll bridge until 1974, was demolished in 2001 and replaced in 2006.
Black & white photograph
Written on back: Scioto River Bridge at Jasper, Ohio, looking east across old Ohio and Erie Canal. Taken off glass negative by Joe White, Waverly, Ohio. From collections of Jim Hentry, Waverly, Ohio.
