Browse Items (265 total)

  • Collection: Historic Item Collection

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Emerald green glass box with gold decoration and fading name - "Steinkamp & Co", Portsmouth, OH". Longtime furniture company (1907-1928). Located 526-530 Second (2nd) Street. Sold to Lewis Furniture in 1928.

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Green glass bottle. Embossed on front: "E. J. Kenrick Company, Portsmouth, Ohio"- circled. "Inside circle: "Harold Clayton" at bottom: "Cap 7 1/2 fluid oz." After Edward died, John took over the business. When John died, his will stipulated that…

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Clear, but stained inside, glass bottle. Label is not the original. Fluid dosage on back. Label notes type of medicine and use. Frank Amann owned a drugstore on 208 Market Street. He was a local pharmacist from 1885 to 1918 then moved to Cincinnati.

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Green glass bottle with white and red painted labels; red circle- white lettering: "B-1 Lemon-Lime Soda" on neck; on bottom: "Contains vitamin B1, B-1 Reg. U. S. Pat off. Lemon Lime Soda contents 7 fl oz. Copyright 1940 by B-1 Beverage Co., St.…

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Green tinted glass bottle with embossed name, 6 oz, patented in 1913. John Stark opened Portsmouth Coca Cola Bottling at 1212 Thirteenth (13th) Street. In 1928 a new building opened at 3001 Scioto Trail.
Bottle is a Hobbleskirt Coke Bottle, called…

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Green tinted glass bottle with embossed name, 6 oz, patented in 1913. John Stark opened Portsmouth Coca Cola Bottling at 1212 Thirteenth (13th) Street. In 1928 a new building opened at 3001 Scioto Trail.
Bottle is a Hobbleskirt Coke Bottle, called…

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Clear bottle embossed below neck with diamond shapes. Then rectangle with embossed "Drink Barq's trademark Reg. It's Good." Bottom: "Barq's Bottling Co., Ports. & Cinci, O."

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Green, faded booklet log for customer transactions. Only one customer listed. Black print on front and back, log in pencil. Company located at 723 Fifth (5th) Street.

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Tan, worn booklet journal documenting customer transactions. Black on front and back. Log is in pencil. The Horchow store was located at 40, 42 & 44 Gallia Street.

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Color illustrated advertisement card with dog and flower arrangement cut out. Written on front in script & print: No gift has greater beauty than flowers; Knost Floral, Mr. and Mrs. G.W. Putzek, Owner; 1225 to 1239 Seventeenth (17th) Street; Phone…

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Beige tickets with red print for toll travel one-way across the U S Grant Bridge connecting Ohio and Kentucky over the Ohio River by Route 23. The bridge became toll-free in 1974. One side: A/1 State Bridge Commission of Ohio, Name of Bridge, Use,…

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Yellowed advertisement on one side: colored painting of "Last Supper" on back: "Emrick Funeral Home, Funeral Director and Embalmer, Air Conditioned, Ralph F. Scott, owner, Ambulance Service, Phone 353-4161, 1422 Lincoln St., Portsmouth, Ohio, 45662.…
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