black & white photo image of the Eagles Hall located and Gallia & Bond Streets. Back of card: "River City Aerie No. 567 F.O.E. Instituted Dec, 7th , 1903, Forty years of Progress. Located at Gallia and Bond Sts., In the Heart of Portsmouth, O. Located in new home July 8th, 1938. Burning of mortgage, April 30, May 1st and May 2nd, 1943." Years earlier this building was known as the Auditorium.
Black and white image with tinted blue sky. This building at Second (2nd) and Court Streets was identified in 1898 in The Portsmouth Blade Industrial Edition as the Elks Building. In the 1903 Portsmouth City Directory it was known as the Elk Block and housed the Portsmouth Banking Company. In the 1916 directory Elks were meeting at Chillicothe & Sixth (6th) Streets and this building at 546 Second (2nd) Street was called "Eagle's Hall." In the mid 1940's the Eagles address listing changed to 950 Gallia Street.
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page 296. Pictured: E.W. Smith's College; Spry Building; T.L. Cheek & CO; Soldier's Monument (1879); Tracy Park; Grand Opera House; James Richardson; W.L.B. Jack; Royal Building; Star Anchor Bitters; Davis Union Mills; Robert G. Ingersoll; McFarland, Boal, Bonsall; George Pursell; C.B. Taylor; Portsmouth Banking Co.
Silver with wear-quarter sized. One side-E.J.K. Co., Portsmouth, Ohio. Other side-"Good for 5(cent) when returned with bottle to dealer." The E.J. Kenrick Company was established in 1866 and originally bottled and sold soft drinks, but later became more of a wholesale distributor of food and tobacco. Their final location, a catalog sales showroom at 342 Second (2nd) Street, closed in 2002.
Clear embossed glass bottle. Embossed: "E.J. Kenrick Company Harold Clayton Portsmouth, O. Cap. 7 1/2 fluid oz." In 1941, at the death of Mr. Kenrick, his cousin G. Harold Clayton became the owner and manager of the Kenrick business on Market Street. G. Harold Clayton was elected president of the Ohio Bottlers Association in 1948.(George Harold Clayton obituary, Portsmouth Times, April 13, 1956)
Yellowed, aged, water damaged, handwritten receipt to E.J. Kenrick signed by Steve Larkins (driver) to John Collins for merchandise. Torn on left, folds and red ink water damage. Pencil.
Yellowed, aged handwritten sales receipt to John Collins (grocer) from E.J. Kenrick & Son. Signed by Steven Larkin. Water damage, folds and torn at bottom, red stripe.
Amber glass bottle embossed with "E.J. Kenrick & Son Portsmouth, O. Registered" on front, "D.O.C. 66" on back. The company was located at 1866 Front Street.
