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Businesses and Corporations

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 287 Collections and/or Records:

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

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