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).
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.
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.
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.
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. The Portsmouth Blade; Mrs. James Connolley ( 1870); Dr. Tremper; W. H. McCall; Mrs. Carrie Hatt; The Hibbs Hardware Co.; Henning & Weeks
Black and white photo negative of The Portsmouth Blade newspaper building. The Blade newspaper ran from 1879-1914. The building was located at 119 West Second (2nd) Street.
