Oral history interview with Elise F. Wendel conducted by Rick Harmon from January 30 to February 27, 1985. Wendel was the daughter of I.N. Fleischner, the owner of the Fleischner, Mayer, and Co. department store, and the wife of Harold F. Wendel, the president of Lipman and Wolfe department store in Portland, Oregon.

Papers of a businessman and civic leader of Portland, Oregon, who headed the Lipman Wolfe department store from 1927 until his death in 1967. Materials include correspondence; files on the Oregon State Sanitary Authority, a pollution control agency; files on the University of Oregon; and biographical materials.