Black & White photo image of Flood & Blake Drugs at 591-593 (9109-2111)Gallia Street in 1908. The red building in background is Shoemaker Hardware at 581 Gallia. In about 1900 a well-known butcher named Thomas B. Blake purchased the property and developed five store rooms in the block facing Gallia Street at the corner of Lawson.
Correspondence on back from Mrs. Flood.
Black & white photo image.
on back: This picture shows how the 1937 flood tore a hole in the N&W dirt levy at the east end of the Portsmouth flood wall. WPA workers have now extended the concrete 62-foot flood wall for a distance of 1000 feet.
