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Businesses and Corporations

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 282 Collections and/or Records:

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

Herbert Retzlaff papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2816
Abstract

Herbert Retzlaff studied accounting at the Oregon Institute of Technology and became a CPA in 1933. In 1939, he began working as an accountant for Fred Meyer Inc., later becoming a vice president of the company. Collection includes correspondence, including congratulations, invitations, etc. regarding Fred Meyer Inc. and some to the German Consulate; programs for award banquets at Fred Meyer Inc., a history of the company, and organizational charts; and a biography of Fred Meyer.

Dates: 1954-1978

Herbert Retzlaff photographic collection

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 589
Abstract

Small collection of photographs of Herbert Retzlaff, primarily while he was an employee at Fred Meyer, Inc., and of Jack Crocker, Fred G. Meyer, and Albena J. Skubic. Retzlaff began working as an accountant for Fred Meyer Inc. in 1939, and he later became a vice president of the company.

Dates: 1952-1970

Jack C. Riley papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll578
Abstract

Papers and images compiled by Jack C. Riley (1921-2016), who worked as an electrical engineer and was employed by the Portland, Oregon firm Electro Scientific Instruments.

Dates: 1942-2005

Oral history interview with Oran B. Robertson

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9496
Abstract

Oral history interview with Oran B. Robertson conducted by Linda S. Dodds on February 20, 1980. Robertson was a vice president, and later CEO, of Fred Meyer, Inc. in Portland, Oregon.

Dates: 1980 February 20