Businesses and Corporations

Ledger of a wheat company, with letter from Oregon Historical Society librarian Dorothy Hirsch regarding research on the identification of the ledger.

Miscellaneous records of the Silver Falls Timber Company.

Collection includes 11 plans, elevations and sections on 8 sheets of a factory for Smith and Watson Iron Works at SW Front Ave. (now SW Naito Parkway) and SW Harrison St. in Portland, Oregon.

Southern Pacific Gold Company was headquartered in Spokane, Washington, with gold interests in Grants Pass, Oregon. Collection includes correspondence between L. T. Matthews and R. E. Pinney regarding payroll and conditions of mines and labor in Grants Pass.

Spencer, Dey & Hampson was a Portland, Oregon, law firm. Its partners were Omar C. Spencer, Ben C. Dey, and Alfred A. Hampson. Collection consists of a manuscript account book containing fees, rent and partners' dividends. Also includes Hampson's and Dey's individual records of their own work and fees.

Account book for Sperry Flour Mills, 1920-1922.

St. Helens Pulp and Paper Company was founded in 1925 by Willard P. Hawley and Willard P. Hawley, Jr., of the Hawley Pulp and Paper Company in Oregon City, Oregon. Max Oberdorfer was the founding manager. Collection includes correspondence, 1925-1928, between Oberdorfer and the Hawleys regarding plans to build a new paper mill in St. Helens, Oregon.

Standard Insurance Company records, 1865-1946, include salary records, a cash book, stock portfolio records, agent accounts, and trial balance books. Also included are brochures, calendars, and abstract of title for a parcel of land in Southwest Portland. Standard Insurance was originally founded in Portland as the Oregon Life Insurance Company by a German immigrant, Leo Samuel (1847-1916), in 1906.

Business records of blacksmiths working in Halsey, Oregon, including Cunningham & Legate, Legate & Worth, Worth & Standish, Standish Bros.