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Businesses and Corporations

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 275 Collections and/or Records:

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

Rodgers, Hart, Gibson Company records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1344
Abstract

Bound manuscript account book of Rodgers, Hart, Gibson Company, insurance and rental providers, Portland, Oregon, 1907-1915, tracking collections and mortgages.

Dates: 1907-1915

Rooster Rock Cannery records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1778
Abstract

Unprocessed collection of miscellaneous records of the Rooster Rock Cannery, which was located on the Oregon side of the Columbia River, in the small bay between Tunnel Point and Rooster Rock. It was built by Antone Fastabend for Samuel Elmore, who had a large cannery business in Astoria, Oregon.

Dates: circa 1906-1938

Roy family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2338
Abstract

Papers include a discharge from the British Army, 1818, for John Roy; discharge from the French Foreign Legion, 1848, and medals for service in Algeria, 1893, for Jean-Frederic Roy; and ledgers of a jewelry business in Stayton, Oregon, 1897-1898, kept by E. Roy.

Dates: 1818-1898

Russellville Water Company, Inc. records

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 1014
Abstract Records of the Russellville Water Company, Inc. of Portland, Oregon, consisting of a book of handwritten minutes from 1939 to 1950 maintained by secretary Beryl Knoblauch; financial records, correspondence, and notes; and typed minutes for a meeting to dissolve the company. The Russellville Water Company, Inc. was a water utility firm that operated water lines in the Russellville neighborhood of eastern Portland, Oregon. In late 1950, it dissolved and sold its assets to the Russellville...
Dates: 1939-1950

S. C. Kurdy account book

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1360
Abstract

Account book, 1919-1920, of S. C. Kurdy Company, a wholesale grocer in Portland, Oregon.

Dates: 1919-1920

Werden A. Sanders papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2662
Abstract

Werden A. Sanders was a jeweler who moved from Nebraska and began businesses in Colfax, Washington; Wallace, Idaho; and Lebanon, Oregon. Collection includes correspondence, 1881-1898, with family members in Nebraska and with Dr. J. Ulrich Wurster, a jeweler in Newport, Oregon; notes by Sanders regarding the free silver issue and the Bryan-McKinley campaign; and ephemera.

Dates: 1881-1898