Businesses and Corporations

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.

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

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.

Collection includes articles of incorporation, minutes, stockholder lists and other administrative documents.

Collection includes correspondence, reports, clippings, and miscellaneous documents and ephemera, 1949-1954, regarding the controversy over development of Snake River-Hells Canyon region.

Collection includes manuscript administrative records removed from a record book, March-August 1887, including articles of incorporation, stock subscription list, and minutes of stockholder meetings.

Collection includes 28 plans, elevations and sections on 6 sheets of a cannery for the Seufert Brothers in The Dalles, Oregon. The Seufert Bros. Company was founded in 1884 in The Dalles by brothers Francis A. and Theodore J. Seufert, whose business dominated the fish canning and packing business on the Columbia River for many years.

Records include minutes, 1893-1930; bills of sale of enrolled vessels, 1893-1933; history of the Shaver Transportation Company, 1893-1959; plan of proposed boat mooring; history of Shaver Forwarding Co. and Tidewater-Shaver Barge Lines, 1932-1943.