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Businesses and Corporations

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 275 Collections and/or Records:

Portland Manufacturing Company

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 837
Abstract

Typescript carbon copy of a history, written by Thomas J. Autzen, of the Portland Manufacturing Company, a veneer and plywood business. The document discusses the company's history, operations, and growth, as well as many of its employees. Autzen (1888-1958) took over the company after the death of his father, Peter Autzen, in 1918, and led the business for much of his life.

Dates: 1953 January 29

Portland Marble Works records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1745
Abstract

Records include correspondence, ledgers, order books, and design motifs.

Dates: 1882-1945

Portland Milling Company records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1361
Abstract

Records include daybooks, 1852-1855; journals, 1851-1855; cash book, 1851-1855; and ledgers, 1851-1855.

Dates: 1851-1855

Portland real estate account books

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1620
Abstract

Collection consists of account books, 1912-1932, of an unidentified business, relating mostly to manufacturing accounts and real estate properties in Portland, Oregon.

Dates: 1912-1932

Portland Union Stock Yards Company records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2776
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1909-1936

Portland Woolen Mills picnic photograph

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 616
Abstract

Black and white panoramic photograph of attendees at a company picnic for employees of Portland Woolen Mills on July 28, 1923. The photograph belonged to Ray DeLashmutt, and the collection also includes a photocopy with handwritten notes identifying family members in the image.

Dates: 1923 July 28

Alfred Powers papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 2907
Abstract

Collection of historical materials relating to Oregon and Pacific Northwest history, including business records, scrapbooks, catalogs, and ephemera.

Dates: 1834-1963

J. W. Putney receipts

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2451
Abstract

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

Dates: 1913-1916

Red Crown Mill records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1697
Abstract

Collection consists of cash journals with grain receipts, purchases and sales.

Dates: 1926-1945

Simeon Gannett Reed papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1117
Abstract Typescript copies, some on microfilm, of the letters and private papers of a businessman, entrepreneur, railroad magnate, and land developer of Portland, Oregon, active in the late 19th century. Subjects include mining, railroad ventures, land development, livestock breeding, shipping and steamships. Prominent correspondents include John C. Ainsworth, William S. Ladd, Ladd & Tilton Bank, and Martin Winch. Also included are letters from Victor M. Clement of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan...
Dates: 1864-1931; Majority of material found within 1864-1896