Businesses and Corporations

Collection includes quitclaim and warranty deeds, mortgages and articles of incorporation for Silverton Mining Co.; miscellaneous financial records, patents for hop drier and business correspondence, 1898-1910; ledgers, 1894-1921.

Account book of Wolff & Trimble attorneys-at-law, Portland, Oregon, occasionally describing cases taken.

Legal and financial records of the Wonder Stores Company, 1915-1921, including receipts, stock certificates, correspondence, tax returns, and insurance. Also included is a record book, 1 volume, 1915-1921, with minutes, articles of incorporation and lists of stockholders.

Papers include a diary, October 1878-January 1879, regarding James McIntosh Wood's trip to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as a representative of an American coffee company; and manuscript correspondence, 1888-1927, regarding personal and family matters.

Manuscript bill of sale from Lazarus Wright to James H. Bean for a third of the machinery of the Myrtle Creek Flouring Mill in Myrtle Creek, Oregon, 1860.

Bond of Enrollment, Theodore Wygant, for the steamer Yakima, Portland, Oregon, June 13, 1865; and business licenses for Wygant to operate with the Lower Willamette Steamboat Company, Oregon City, Oregon, and the Upper Willamette Steamboat Company, Oregon City, Oregon, January 31, 1863.

Bound manuscript ledger of the Yamhill Steam Boat Company, 1859-1860, containing passage accounts, expenses, freight and bills.

Account book of Young & Spencer, McMinnville, Oregon.

Menus, business cards, and a poster for Zefiro, a restaurant that operated in northwest Portland, Oregon, in the 1990s.

Property and financial records, sales catalogs, photographs, and other memorabilia of Zell Bros., a jewelry store in Portland, Oregon. The store was founded in 1912 by brothers Julius Zell (1895-1976) and Harry Zell (1893-1983). The firm remained in business until December 2009.