Businesses and Corporations

Records include catalogs, receipt book, and advertising posters.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.