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business records

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Allen and Lewis records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 786
Abstract

Records of a mercantile firm in Portland, Oregon, that was founded by Cicero Hunt Lewis and Lucius H. Allen. The records date mainly from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and include financial ledgers, business correspondence, real estate and land records, contracts, stock certificates, and materials relating to the widening of West Burnside Street in downtown Portland, due to construction of the Burnside Bridge. The collection also includes papers relating to George Good.

Dates: 1853-1931

Anderson & Duniway Company records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 70
Abstract

Records of the Anderson & Duniway Company consist of two items, a time book (1903-1910) and a cash book (1903-1907). The time book gives a weekly record of the employees, the hours they worked, and their pay for that week. The cash book records customers and expenses. Anderson & Duniway was a printing firm in Portland, Oregon. Incorporated in 1901, its name changed to the Abbott & Duniway Company in 1911. The company dissolved in 1912.

Dates: 1903-1910

Philip Buehner papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 82
Abstract

Papers and records relating to the business interests of Philip Buehner (1858-1940), an engineer and lumberman. Buehner developed municipal water-supply projects in Washington state and Oregon, and, in partnership with with Wolff & Zwicker Iron Works, supplied pipelines for the Bull Run water system for Portland, Oregon. Buehner also operated multiple Oregon lumber companies.

Dates: 1876-1919

Convoy Company records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 2940
Abstract

Records of the Convoy Company, an Oregon business originally established in 1930 as a subsidiary of Consolidated Truck Lines, which specialized in shipping automobiles by truck. The company became independent in 1941, and was sold in the early 1990s. The records in this collection include employee lists and directories, information booklets, promotional materials, company calendars, and a small quantity of correspondence.

Dates: 1952-1985

Cracker Eagle Gold Mining Company records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss55
Abstract

Collection consists of corporate records for the Cracker Eagle Gold Mining Company, which operated in Baker County, Oregon. Records date from 1903 to 1905 and include expense accounts, business transactions, and stockholders' correspondence.

Dates: 1903-1905

French and Company records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 999
Abstract

Records of a mercantile business and banking firm headed by Daniel M. French in The Dalles, Oregon. Includes correspondence (1876-1878) from Breyman & Summerville, French & Gilman, Heppner & Maddock, Ladd & Tilton, Marshall Johnson Kinney, Henry R. Sels, and others relating to cattle, the wool and hide trade, and banking. Also includes records of shipments to Camps Harney, Logan, and Watson in 1868.

Dates: 1868-1878

Shubrick Norris papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 917
Abstract

Financial records and business letters of a pioneer businessman of Portland, Oregon, dating primarily from the early 1850s. Includes records of Norris & Company, S. M. Holderness & Co., and Winter & Latimer of San Francisco, California. Also included are commissary accounts of the Oregon Mounted Volunteers, 1855, and a record of witness fees from the U.S. Circuit Court in Multnomah County, Oregon, 1859-1866.

Dates: 1849-1866

Oregon Chai records

 Collection
Identifier: Coll553
Abstract

Financial and marketing records of the firm Oregon Chai, along with press material about the company. Oregon Chai was a tea company that was founded in Portland, Oregon, in 1994, and sold to Kerry Foods in 2004.

Dates: 1994-2005

Portland Iron Works records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 175
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1860-1939

Alfred Powers papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 2907
Abstract

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

Dates: 1834-1963