Register of ships that traversed the Columbia River Bar between June 1898 and May 1906, including information about who piloted the ships, and on what dates the ships crossed the bar or reached Astoria, Oregon. The Oregon Provisional Legislature formed the Oregon Board of Pilot Commissioners in 1846 to regulate pilotage on the Columbia River.

Collection includes pioneer death register, arranged alphabetically, circa 1915; Benton County pioneer register, 1875; manuscript correspondence, 1874-1882, between officers and members; and financial records, 1874-1882.

Membership roster, circa 1850-1898, listing Pennsylvania immigrants.

Records of the company that built and owned the Portland Hotel in Portland, Oregon. The hotel operated from 1890 to the 1940s and was, for a time, the city's grandest. The collection includes minutes of board meetings, stock records, articles of incorporation, a color brochure from the 1890s, and a hotel register from 1890.

Correspondence and steamboating licenses, 1883-1922; notebooks, 1892-1929, with accounts, logs and schedules of steamer runs; and a passenger register from the S.S. Bailey Gatzert, 1898.

Albert M. Southwick was a native of Salem, Oregon, and served with the Oregon Volunteer Infantry 2nd Regiment in the Spanish-American War. Collection includes correspondence with family, 1898-1907, regarding army life and conditions in Manila, Philippines; rosters and booklets describing the Oregon Volunteer Infantry, 1898; and newspaper clippings regarding the Spanish-American War, 1898-1899.

Collection consists of registers, 1904, of the Oregon Headquarters of the St. Louis Exposition.

Collection consists of account books, 1917-1918; rosters of the members of the 86th Squadron, Spruce Production Division, 1918; pictorial review of the Spruce Production Division, 1917-1919; and miscellaneous documents and ephemera, 1917-1919.