Herbert Retzlaff photographic collection

Collection

Identifier: Org. Lot 589

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Collection consists of 29 color and black and white photographs, 1952-1970, of Herbert Retzlaff, primarily while he was an employee at Fred Meyer, Inc. Other subjects include Jack Crocker, Fred G. Meyer, and Albena J. Skubic.

Dates

Creation: 1952-1970

Creator

Retzlaff, Herbert, 1903-1999 (Person)
DeLay, Allan J. (Photographer, Person)
Commercial Developers (Portland, Or.) (Photographer, Organization)
Photo-Art Commercial Studios (Portland, Or.) (Photographer, Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

The Oregon Historical Society owns the materials in the Research Library and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from copyright owners.

Biographical note

Herbert Retzlaff was born in Königsberg, Germany (which is now Kaliningrad, Russia) in 1903. During World War I, his family was evacuated to Berlin. He attended the University of Munich for three years. Inflation in post-World War I Germany drove him to seek employment abroad, ultimately landing him in Portland, Oregon, in 1924, where a fellow German American offered him a job at a gas company. In 1932, he and Lucile N. Martin were married. During the Depression, Retzlaff studied accounting at the Oregon Institute of Technology and became a CPA in 1933. In 1939, he began working as an accountant for Fred Meyer Inc. In 1955, he became a vice president of Fred Meyer Inc., and he retired in 1972. Lucy N. Martin died in 1978, and in 1980, Retzlaff and Helen E. Amacher were married. He was a patron of the Portland Opera, and established the Herbert Retzlaff Chair of Management Accounting endowment at Portland State University in 1986. He died in 1999.

Extent

0.1 Cubic Feet (1 folder in shared box)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Small collection of photographs of Herbert Retzlaff, primarily while he was an employee at Fred Meyer, Inc., and of Jack Crocker, Fred G. Meyer, and Albena J. Skubic. Retzlaff began working as an accountant for Fred Meyer Inc. in 1939, and he later became a vice president of the company.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Herbert Retzlaff, February 1989 (Lib. Acc. 19225, Photo Acc. 989D029).

Related Materials

Other materials related to Herbert Retzlaff at the Oregon Historical Society Research Library are a collection of his papers, Mss 2816, and an oral history with Retzlaff, SR 1311.