A small collection of papers of Abigail Scott Duniway, who was an emigrant to Oregon, an editor, and an advocate of women's suffrage. Includes records of the Oregon State Equal Suffrage Association, records of the Duniway Publishing Company, and copy of a typescript transcription of Duniway's overland diary, 1852.

Papers of and relating to Aaron M. Frank (1891-1968), his son Gerry Frank (1923-2022), their family, and the Portland, Oregon, department store Meier & Frank. Aaron M. Frank was president of Meier & Frank from 1937 to 1964. Gerry Frank managed a Salem, Oregon, branch of Meier & Frank from 1955 to 1965, and later served as U.S. Senator Mark Hatfield's chief of staff.

Records of a mercantile business and banking firm headed by Daniel M. French in The Dalles, Oregon. Includes correspondence (1876-1878) from Breyman & Summerville, French & Gilman, Heppner & Maddock, Ladd & Tilton, Marshall Johnson Kinney, Henry R. Sels, and others relating to cattle, the wool and hide trade, and banking. Also includes records of shipments to Camps Harney, Logan, and Watson in 1868.

Manuscript diary, 1879, regarding a trip from Hantsport, Nova Scotia to Portland, Oregon, with accounts; manuscript ledger, 1890-1895, of passengers and cargo carried by steamers of the Oregon City Transportation Company, including the steamers Altona, Latona and Ramona.

Papers of a saloon keeper of Cathlamet, Washington, containing account ledgers and daybook of the Caledonia Saloon, correspondence with suppliers, and records of the Horace Hallett estate.

Collection includes materials related to E. Manuel Hartman, Ernest A. Hartman, and Melissa Hartman, dating from 1885-1937. Papers include certificates of appointment; Justice of the Peace docket; a Wasco County schools district clerk ledger; Wapinitia general store ledgers, and a White River Power Plant ledger.

Ledger kept by James H. Henderson (1862-1959) relating to his work as a furniture dealer, carpenter, and funeral director in Elgin, Oregon, with a small amount of financial ephemera from his later life in Portland, Oregon. Henderson was born in Missouri, and came to La Grande, Oregon, in 1884. He lived in Elgin from the 1890s until 1919, when he moved to Portland.

Business papers of a wholesale liquor company in Portland, Oregon, including saloon orders (1862-1864) from mining camps and towns in eastern Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, which include news of the mines and business conditions in those areas. Also included are records and correspondence of the company's predecessor, Humiston and Ma'Dan (1859-1862).

Ledgers from a store that F. X. Matthieu (1818-1914) ran in Butteville, Oregon. The collection also includes other papers of and relating to Matthieu, who was a French-Canadian migrant to Oregon and the longest-surviving participant of the 1843 Champoeg Meetings.

Financial records and business letters of a pioneer businessman of Portland, Oregon, dating primarily from the early 1850s. Includes records of Norris & Company, S. M. Holderness & Co., and Winter & Latimer of San Francisco, California. Also included are commissary accounts of the Oregon Mounted Volunteers, 1855, and a record of witness fees from the U.S. Circuit Court in Multnomah County, Oregon, 1859-1866.