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.
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.
Colorized photo image of the N & W Depot at Tenth (10th) and Waller Streets. It was used from 1901 until the new terminal was built on Sixteenth (16th) and Findlay Streets in 1931. This location was used for storage until it was razed in 1968.
Black & white photo of the Norfolk & Western Railway Depot at Tenth (10th) and Waller Streets in the 1913 flood. It was built for another railroad and acquired the N & W in 1901 and used until 1931, when the new terminal was constructed at Findlay and Sixteenth (16th) Streets. This location was used for storage until it was razed in 1968.
Black & white photo image of the Baltimore & Ohio passenger station(right) and freight station(left). View is looking south along Market Street at Fifth (5th) Street.
