The 1918 Portsmouth City Directory lists: The Portsmouth Solvay Coke company, M.K. Hitchcock, Traffic Manager, 42-43 First National Bank Building. On June 1, 1917, the Turkey Gap Coal and Coke Company was purchased by the Portsmouth Solvay Coke Company to supply the ovens at its new by-product coking plant at Portsmouth. The Freeburn mine in Pike County Kentucky furnished high-grade by-product coal to the coke ovens at Portsmouth. In 1921 the American Rolling Mill Company and the Whitaker-Glessner Company jointly acquired all the capital stock of the Portsmouth Solvay Company and changed the name to the Portsmouth By-Product Coke Company.
Cream color paper with black fonts and lithograph illustrations. Green seal and background signatures in black ink. Shares - two at $100 each, number 37. Incorporated in Columbus, March 31, 1922.
Cream color paper with black fonts, red lines and lithograph illustrations. Gold seal and black ink signature. Showing increase in stock. W.F. Seymore, Pres. P.E.E Watkins, Sec. No. 101135.
Black and white photo negative of four men at the Portsmouth Chemical Company. The company was located west, south of the Norfolk and Western Railway, between Spring Lane and Seventeenth (17th) Street (1912-1913 City Directory).
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured is three black and white photos cut from Lorberg publication for scrapbook. 1. The Portsmouth Cycle Club 2. The J. G. Reed Co., Dry Goods, Wholesale. 3. The Excelsior Shoe Company.
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured is a cropped image of the front page of a copy of the Portsmouth Blade. Also pictured is a black and white photograph of Charles E. Hard
