Businesses and Corporations

Account book, 1861-1862, kept by John O'Connor, who ran a vegetable market in Portland, Oregon.

Collection includes stock certificate book, 1935-1942, and minute book, 1935-1943, with certificate of dissolution.

Partially processed collection consisting of timebooks, ephemera, ledgers, minutes, and other records of Oregon Brass Works, which operated in Portland, Oregon, from about 1930 to 1998.

Records of an Oregon company that constructed and ran a military road from Eugene to the Owyhee River. Records date from 1864 to 1877 and include correspondence, organizational records, legal records, road superintendents' reports, financial records, stock books, and certificates.

Financial and marketing records of the firm Oregon Chai, along with press material about the company. Oregon Chai was a tea company that was founded in Portland, Oregon, in 1994, and sold to Kerry Foods in 2004.

Collection includes lists, elections, oaths of office, voting of stock, etc. of shareholders, incorporators and directors, 1864-1891. Also included are minutes, stock records and certificates of the Oregon City Manufacturing Co., 1864-1970; Oregon City Woolen Mills, 1925-1962; Wood Specialties Co., 1935-1937; Bridal Veil Lumber and Box Co., 1937-1939, Nevin Co.; 1944-1960; Mark Portland Co., 1949, and Powell Grain Co., Inc., 1951-1966.

Records include articles of incorporation, 1906; agreement between the East Side Railway Company and the Oregon City Transportation Company, 1897; license agreement, 1919; stock certificates, 1886-1896; broadsides, newspaper clippings, tickets, brochures and other ephemera.

Correspondence, financial and personnel records of the Oregon Flax Fiber Company of Turner, Oregon.

Disbound typescript price list, 1946, of grocery items sold by wholesale food retailers Oregon Groceteria, Portland, Oregon.

Unprocessed collection of records of the Oregon Iron and Steel Company, including account books and miscellaneous business documents. Also includes materials relating to Paul F. Murphy and Paul B. Murphy and their families.