black & white photo of the temporary bridge contractor Henry Ruel built over the Scioto River in 1914 to carry a compressed air pipe to the construction site of the piers of the new bridge.
Black & white photo of the Scioto River Bridge looking west. The bridge was completed November of 1915 to replace the bridge that washed out in the 1913 flood. This, the sixth (6th) bridge was used until 1997 when it was closed and razed.
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.
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.
Colored image of the bridge over the Scioto River on the west side of Portsmouth. This bridge replaced the previous one that washed away in the 1913 flood. This, the sixth (6th) bridge, was opened in 1915 and was used until 1997 when it was closed and razed.
