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Businesses and Corporations

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 275 Collections and/or Records:

Phoenix Iron Works records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1078
Abstract

Records of an iron manufacturing company of Portland, Oregon. Includes minutes of board meetings, a small amount of correspondence, proxy slips, stock certificates, and articles of incorporation.

Dates: 1901-1964; Majority of material found within 1901-1957

Plummer & Byerley account book

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2592
Abstract

Account book for a drugstore run by Dr. Orlando Pleasant Shields Plummer and Fabian Byerley in Portland, Oregon.

Dates: 1881-1883

Plummer Drug Company records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1763
Abstract

Unprocessed collection of records of the Plummer Drug Company, primarily prescription forms.

Dates: circa 1881-1955

James S. Polhemus papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 2007
Abstract

Papers of an Oregon businessman, consisting primarily of the records of the Alsea Packing Company, of which he was part owner. Also includes blueprint of Polhemus's house in northwest Portland, Oregon.

Dates: 1888-1906

William Pollman papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1834
Abstract

Unprocessed papers of William Pollman, who was born in Quincy, Illinois, in 1867 and came to Oregon in 1889. He was a businessman in Baker County, Oregon, and ran a successful meat business with J.A. Geddes.

Dates: 1891-1937

Portland Center Company records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2589
Abstract

The Portland Center Company was a commercial real estate firm in Portland, Oregon. Collection includes articles of incorporation, minutes, stockholder lists and other administrative documents, including records of the leasing of the Broadway Building to Nordstrom, Inc. in 1950.

Dates: 1945-1964

Portland Cordage Company records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1744
Abstract

Records include catalogs, receipt book, and advertising posters.

Dates: 1888-1914

Portland Hotel Company records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 745
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1888-1943

Portland Iron Works records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 175
Abstract

Records of an iron manufacturing company of Portland, Oregon, that produced mostly sawmill and transmission machinery. Includes financial records, letter books, time books, correspondence, patent materials, and pamphlets and brochures. Most records date from the 1880s to the early 1920s.

Dates: 1860-1939

Portland Machinery Company photographic collection

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 730
Abstract

Eight black and white photographs of the interior and exterior of the offices and shop of the Portland Machinery Company, and of employees.

Dates: 1905-1938