Collection includes manuscript correspondence between Hugh O'Bryant and family, William Strong, Charles Newell, and R. H. Dearborn, 1842-1878; miscellaneous receipts, 1867-1871.

Papers of rancher and banker Herman Oliver (1885-1970), including correspondence, financial papers, and photographs. Oliver managed the Oliver Ranch, a cattle and sheep ranch in Grant County, Oregon, through the first half of the 20th century. He was also president of the Grant County Bank, and served on the Oregon State Board of Higher Education.

Collection includes account book, Cornelius, Oregon, 1904-1936; and correspondence and receipts, 1913-1936, including a letter from J. R. Schaffer of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Nehalem, Oregon.

Records include catalogs, receipt book, and advertising posters.

Portland Union Stock Yards opened in 1890, and was organized into a company in 1902 by W. H. H. Morgan. It moved to North Portland in 1909 and was purchased by the United Stockyards Corporation in 1936. Collection includes correspondence, 1931-1936, regarding company purchases and maintenance of trailers, tractors, and dump wagons; receipts and miscellaneous ephemera, 1909-1936, including newspaper articles about the company.

The Portsmouth School Old Timer's Club held a picnic every year for alumni of Portsmouth School in the Portsmouth area of Portland to socialize. Collection includes administrative records; member lists and member list books; a scrapbook; an account book; a minute book; correspondence; receipts; and promotional mailings and flyers.

Receipts, 1913-1916, primarily from W. H. Markell & Company and East Side Slabwood Company, Portland, Oregon.

William Sherlock (1817-1901) was born in Ireland. He migrated to Portland, Oregon, where he established a livery business in 1850. Sherlock's property investments included 45 acres in northwest Portland; he also at one time owned Swan Island. Collection consists of manuscript deeds for property in Portland, 1851 and 1855; a manuscript survey of William Sherlock's land claim, Portland, 1862; and miscellaneous receipts, 1851-1868.

Bills and receipts for goods shipped by J. N. Stansberry, Portland, Oregon, 1856.

Collection consists of a manuscript certificate, Princeton, Illinois, January 25, 1864, verifying George W. Waldron's clerical abilities; and a manuscript receipt for property, estate of Waldron & Co., The Dalles, Oregon, December 18, 1880.