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.
Colorized illustrated image of the building. "Devoss & Donaldson Architects"printed on front. Correspondence on back. Opened in 1908, named for Dr. Giles S.B.Hempstead, it was enlarged with a third floor and two wings in 1923. This building at 2001 Scioto Trail became the Portsmouth General Hospital in 1925. It was razed in 2006 after the new hospital was built on 27th Street.
Colorized photo image of the N. & W. Railway Bridge over the Scioto River on the west side of Portsmouth at Vera Junction. In March 1913 one middle section of this bridge was damaged by flood waters and had to be rebuilt. It was in service until 2003.
Colorized illustration of the building on the south east corner of Gallia St. and Chillicothe. This is the first half completed in 1912. In about 1924 an identical addition was added on the south side where the Lyric Theater had stood.
Sepia tone photo, image of employees at a banquet. Photo is mounted on matboard that has watermark and corners broken.
Front box lettering: 2nd Annual Banquet of the Employees of the Vulcan Last Co., Portsmouth O. Jan. 1, 1923.
On back: Ray Countermarsh, front table, second from right, back to camera
Black & White photo of the Buena Vista (also known as Rockville or Freestone) post office building. The first post office near Buena Vista was opened in 1848, the year after U.S. forces defeated Santa Anna in the Battle of Buena Vista in northeast Mexico. In 1960, the post office closed and the mail was processed through Stout.
Sepia tone group photo of men in front of Vulcan building. Building has 1912 in architecture with Vulcan Name.
On back: Vulcan-1912
Ray Countermarsh
second row on the end (in front of white panel)
