Businesses and Corporations

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.