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J.K. Gill & Co.

 Organization

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Oral history interview with Nan M. Brewster

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9568
Abstract

Oral history interview with Nan M. Brewster conducted by Charles Digregorio on June 25, 1976. Brewster discusses the Gill and Montgomery family histories, and the history of the J.K. Gill Company in Portland, Oregon.

Dates: 1976 June 25

John Hotchkiss papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2731
Abstract

John T. Hotchkiss was a bookstore manager and salesman for J.K. Gill & Co., a bookstore and stationer in Portland, Oregon. Collection includes scrapbook items, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and leaflets regarding Oregon authors and poets, J. K. Gill's "Poet's Corner," the Oregon Writer's League and poet Mary Carol Davies. Also included are newspaper clippings regarding J. K. Gill and various Oregon writers.

Dates: circa 1889-1940

J.K. Gill Company collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 754
Abstract

The J.K. Gill Company was one of the largest retail and wholesale concerns of its kind on the Pacific Coast. Collection consists of printed ephemera, including advertisements for Christmas books; typescript carbon copies of statements of business for fiscal years ending May 1914, March 1920, and March 1922; and manuscript invoices.

Dates: 1911-1922

Oral history interview with Richard G. Montgomery

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9569
Abstract

Oral history interview with Richard G. Montgomery conducted by Charles Digregorio on May 16, 1976. Montgomery discusses his Montgomery and Gill family background and talks about the history of J. K. Gill Company.

Dates: 1976 May 16

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Business enterprises -- Oregon -- Portland 2
Oral Histories 2
interviews 2
oral histories (literary genre) 2
printed ephemera 2