A. B. Steinbach and Company was a men's and boy's outfitters. Records consist of agreements, 1876-1940; correspondence, 1890-1949; deeds and leases, 1885-1951; mortgages, 1888-1925; titles, 1887-1895; receipts, 1880-1917; and miscellaneous documents, 1884-1939.

Manuscript ledger for A. J. Doak & Co., a general mercantile store in St. Louis, Oregon, operated by Alexander Jackson Doak.

Miscellaneous records of a dry goods and hardware store.

Records of a mercantile firm in Portland, Oregon, that was founded by Cicero Hunt Lewis and Lucius H. Allen. The records date mainly from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and include financial ledgers, business correspondence, real estate and land records, contracts, stock certificates, and materials relating to the widening of West Burnside Street in downtown Portland, due to construction of the Burnside Bridge. The collection also includes papers relating to George Good.

Papers of a pioneer merchant of Portland, Oregon, including business letters of the early 1850s, mostly from San Francisco merchants, including Wells, Fargo, & Company, to W. C. Barnhart and Co.; and business account books, 1851-1854.

Charles F. Berg (1871-1931) owned Charles F. Berg Company, a major women's apparel store in Portland, Oregon. Collection includes biographical information, programs, advertising samples, newsletters, newspaper clippings and scrapbooks, ephemera and programs for KGW's "Hoot Owls" radio program club.

Oral history interview with Forrest T. Berg conducted by Charles Digregorio on November 6, 1978. Berg discusses his work as a clothier, and particularly the Charles F. Berg Company, his father's clothing store in Portland, Oregon.

Notebook with "Chas Brown" handwritten on the cover, containing manuscript accounts, circa 1910-1911. Some of the headings used on entries in the book include: "Provision from store to House for our use in Winter of 1910-1911"; "Provision taken to ship"; and "Provision for Upper Camp." The entries list quantities of food, dry goods, clothing, and other supplies; some entries include dollar amounts.

Oral history interview with Helen M. Brunner conducted by Jim Strassmaier on January 21, 1989. Brunner was an accountant for Fred Meyer Inc. from 1940 to 1946.

Collection consists of typescript copies from account book of James A. Bushnell, 1846-1862. Bushnell was a merchant in Lane County, Oregon.