Transportation Collection, circa 1845-2012
Table of Contents
Overview of the Collection
- Title
- Transportation Collection
- Dates
- circa
1845-2012 (bulk)18452012
- Quantity
- 7 cubic feet (17 document cases, 1 flat box, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection Number
- Mss 1506
- Summary
- Collection of papers related to transportation in all forms, focusing primarily on Oregon and the northwestern United States. Inlcudes manuscripts, ephemera, clippings, and other materials relating to ships, railroads, automobiles, highways, aeronautics, bicycles, and other modes of transport. The collection was created by the Oregon Historical Society with materials drawn from a variety of sources.
- Repository
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Oregon Historical Society Research Library
1200 SW Park Avenue
Portland, OR
97205
Telephone: 503-306-5240
Fax: 503-219-2040
libreference@ohs.org - Access Restrictions
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Collection is open for research.
- Languages
- English
- Sponsor
- Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Content Description
Collection of papers related to transportation in all forms, focusing primarily on Oregon and the northwestern United States. Includes advertisements, publicity materials, tickets, schedules, timetables, stock certificates, log books, financial materials, and company histories. Materials relate to ships and shipping, aeronautics, automobile transport, bicycles, stages, busses, roads, highways, wagons, canals, railroads, and other modes of transport. The collection was created by the Oregon Historical Society with materials drawn from a variety of sources.
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Use
The Oregon Historical Society owns the materials in the Research Library and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from copyright owners.
Preferred Citation
Transportation collection, Mss 1506, Oregon Historical Society Research Library
Administrative Information
Arrangement
Series A: Ships.
Series B: Aviation.
Series C: Automobiles, bicycles, express, stages, busses, roads, highways, streetcars, and wagons.
Series D: Railroads.
Series E: Miscellaneous transportation, oversize.
Detailed Description of the Collection
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Series A: Ships, circa 1850-1988
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Description: Active (steamship)—cabin laundry chitDates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder A1/1
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Description: Alaska Steamship Company—menus from the S.S. Alaska (6)Dates: Aug. 5-7, 1950Container: Box/Folder A1/2
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Description: American Bureau of Shipping
Blank forms used by the ABS for reports on casting or forging, anchors, chains and gearing (9); envelopes of Proof Test Loads for stud link chains, close link chains and anchors (2)
Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder A1/3 -
Description: Arper Transportation Co.
Handbill advertising freight between San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda
Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder A1/4 -
Description: Astoria-North Beach Ferry Co.
Stock certificates on the Astoria-North Beach Ferry Co. (2); summer schedule for 14th St. Ferry between Astoria and Pt. Ellice (2)
Dates: 1922; 1933Container: Box/Folder A1/5 -
Description: Belle (steamer)—cargo billDates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder A1/6
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Description: Berlin (ship)—receipts for Bending Sails ship Berlin (4)Dates: March 20, 1911Container: Box/Folder A1/7
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Description: Blackball Transport Inc.—ferry schedules between Port Angeles and Victoria (3) nos. 2, 7, & 46Dates: 1960; 1986-87Container: Box/Folder A1/8
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Description: Blair Shipping Company
Lumber charter party, S.S. Golden Gate from the North Pacific to Japan ports"
Dates: 1923Container: Box/Folder A1/9 -
Description: Bonneville Navigation Co.
handbills (2); ticket for Albany College River Day
Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder A1/10 -
Description: Brady Hamilton Stevedore Company
Booklet commemorating the history and growth of the organization
Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder A1/11 -
Description: "British Columbia Ferries promotional pamphlet: "B.C. Ferries and You;" promotional pamphlet: "Welcome Aboard!;" bus service schedule between Vancouver & Nanaimo on the "Royal Islander;" ferry schedule card for Comox-Powell Route; British Columbia Ferries - ferry schedules (4)Dates: 1966; 1971; 1976; undatedContainer: Box/Folder A1/12
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Description: Canadian Pacific
Promotional pamphlet for Princess Routes w/ ferry schedules; promotional booklet for Duchess Steamers "The Mighty Water Boulevard to Canada;" schedule for Princess Lines; schedule & fare cards for B.C. Coast steamship service; menu.
Dates: ca. 1929; 1956; Sept. 1957; 1957; n.d.Container: Box/Folder A1/13 -
Description: Canadian Pacific—ferry schedules (4)Dates: April 1961; May 1966; March 1969; March 1972Container: Box/Folder A1/13A
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Description: Cascade Locks (Or.)—Newspaper supplement on the opening of the locks from the Morning OregonianDates: 1896 Dec.Container: Box/Folder Oversize 2
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Description: Chrysopolis —Handbills
Handbills for a steamer operating between Sacramento and Benecia, California, mid 19th century.
Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder Oversize 1 -
Description: City of Rio de Janeiro —Certificate of classification, Record of American Foreign Shipping
Screw steamer, surveyed at San Francisco
Dates: 1898 AprilContainer: Box/Folder Oversize 1 -
Description: Coast Ferries Ltd.—Mill Bay-Brentwood Route ferry scheduleDates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder A1/14
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Description: Columbia (steamship)—cargo receipts (3)Dates: 1852 & 1858Container: Box/Folder A1/15
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Description: Columbia Gorge (sternwheeler)
Itineraries and brochures between Portland & Astoria; meal tickets for the Port of Cascade Locks Sternwheeler (2); boarding pass for the Senate Republican Caucus Cruise
Dates: summer 1988; April 1988; May 24, 1988Container: Box/Folder A1/16 -
Description: Columbia River Shipbuilding Corp.—souvenir booklet, ca. 1920 (1 volume).
Contains a synopsis of the corporation's history and production, and photographs of the plant, personnel, ships, and ships' sponsors.
Corporation was formed by A. F. Smith in 1916 to build warships; constructed S.S. Eureka in 37 days; discontinued shipbuilding after World War I.
Dates: ca. 1920Container: Box/Folder A1/17 -
Description: Columbia River Transportation Co.
Passengers' list from Portland to Cascade; abstract of cash returns of Sea Otter
Dates: Jan. 1, 1875; Oct. 1874Container: Box/Folder A1/18 -
Description: Commercial Iron Works Co.
Commemorative pamphlets: Builder's Trial, H.M.S. Searcher ACV-22; Aircraft Carrier Escort, U.S.S. Badoeny Strait CVE 116; Preliminary Acceptance Trial, U.S.S. Salerno Bay CVE 110; Builder's Trial, H.M.S. Trumpeter ACV 37.
Dates: 1943-1948Container: Box/Folder A1/19 -
Description: Commercial Iron Works Co.
Commemoration of delivery to the U.S. Navy of the 100th Vessel; trial trip pass; invitation to the commissioning ceremonies; pass to the aircraft carrier trials; handbook.
Dates: Aug. 1944; 1943; May 1945; May 1945; undatedContainer: Box/Folder A1/19A -
Description: Conquest (ship)—shipping receipt for goods shipped from New York to San FranciscoDates: 1857Container: Box/Folder A1/20
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Description: U.S. Constitution (frigate)—duplicate official programs of the U.S. Frigate Constitution (2)Dates: 1933Container: Box/Folder A1/21
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Description: Cortes (steamer)—receiptDates: 1858Container: Box/Folder A1/22
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Description: S.S. Cuba—Poster for passenger steamer service between Portland and San FranciscoDates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder Oversize 1
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Description: Cunard Steamship Co.—passage from Gothenburg to PortlandDates: 1908Container: Box/Folder A1/23
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Description: Enterprise (steamer)—receipt for freight on the steamer EnterpriseAlbanyDates: Jan. 7, 1864Container: Box/Folder A1/24
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Description: Eva (steamer)
Handwritten letter from George Perkins about the steamer, its schedule and route between Gardiner and Scottsburg and from Gardiner and Smith Beach. Brief history from construction in 1895 to condemnation in 1917.
Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder A1/25 -
Description: Express (steamer)—freight lists between Portland & and Oregon City (2)Dates: March 1862; Sept.-Dec. 1859Container: Box/Folder A1/26
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Description: Evening Star—stock certificate for 1 share in the missionary vesselDates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder A1/27
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Description: F.M.C. Corporation
Announcement of the christening of the G.T. Chevron Oregon; list of guests by seating arrangement for the luncheon of the G.T. Chevron Oregon; promotional booklet for F.M.C.
Dates: 1974; 1974; undatedContainer: Box/Folder A1/28 -
Description: Garibaldi —ticket from Portland to Hong KongDates: 1870Container: Box/Folder A1/29
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Description: George S. Wright (S.S.)—receiptDates: 1870Container: Box/Folder A1/30
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Description: George S. Wright —Agreements between masters and crew (4), Astoria Custom HouseDates: 1869Container: Box/Folder Oversize 1
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Description: Golden River—receipt for shipment bound for San Francisco from BaltimoreDates: 1854Container: Box/Folder A1/31
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Description: Great Northern Pacific Steamship Co.
Souvenir booklet from the maiden voyage of the S.S. Great Northern; menus of the Palaces of the Pacific (2); 4x5 color transparency of front cover of Great Northern Steamship Co.
Dates: March 1915; Aug. 1915 & Sep. 1915; undatedContainer: Box/Folder A1/32 -
Description: Great Republic--timetable cardDates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder A1/33
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Description: Harkins Transportation Co.
Information for tourists; advertisment for the Steamer Georgiana; brochure: "Down the Columbia;" handbill for the new passenger steamer Georgiana
Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder A2/34 -
Description: Henderson (steamer)—description of the steamerDates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder A2/35
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Description: Idaho (steamship)—waybills (3)Dates: 1871, 1873 & 1876Container: Box/Folder A2/36
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Description: Imperial—receipt of shipment from New York to San FranciscoDates: 1869Container: Box/Folder A2/37
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Description: J.L. Stephens (steamship)—receipts (2)Dates: Dec. 1858 & Oct. 1866Container: Box/Folder A2/38
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Description: Kitsap County Transportation Co.
Invitation to attend the launching of the steamer Suquamish in Seattle; timecard schedule for Harper, Colby, Manchester route
Dates: 1914; May 1914Container: Box/Folder A2/40 -
Description: Knappton Corp.
Invitation to Open House at the new terminal; invitation to christening ceremony of the towboat "P.J. Brix"
Dates: Dec. 14, 1979; 1982Container: Box/Folder A2/41 -
Description: LaConner Trading and Transportation Co.
Special note to passengers—Rules and Regulations while on board
Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder A2/42 -
Description: Lewis & Lake Rivers Transportation Co.—blank stock certificateDates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder A2/43
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Description: Levi G. Burgess (ship)—receipt for $10 from Crowley Launch & Tugboat Co.Dates: Dec. 21, 1910Container: Box/Folder A2/44
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Description: Manzanillo (steamboat)
Ticket stubs running between Mission Landing, Newberg, Champoeg, New Era and Oregon City and Portland (3)
Dates: 1892Container: Box/Folder A2/45 -
Description: Maryhill Ferry Co.—Illustrated brief histories of Maryhill Stonehenge and Museuem of Fine Arts (2)Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder A2/46
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Description: Memorabilia
Brochure: "Cruises of Oregon's Centennial Queen" between Portland and the Centennial Expo. on the Willamette River; program of the launching of the steamship Lonoke; program for opening of the Navigation Lock of The Dalles Dam
Dates: undated; 1918; March 17, 1957Container: Box/Folder A2/47 -
Description: Memorabilia
Advertisement for San Francisco McNevin's Navigation School; schedule and passengers' list of the S.S. Mataram of the Burns Philip Line, from Sydney to Java and Singapore; passengers' list of the P.S. Ramses III; Cook's Nile Services
Dates: undated; Dec. 1911-Jan. 1912; Feb. 1908Container: Box/Folder A2/47A -
Description: Memorabilia
Pass for Fleet Week; pass for launching of Auxiliary Schooner Alpha; news clipping on the sloop Jane Scott to and from Astoria; fare card for the steamer Wasp; announcement of the steamer Lurline leaving Portland for Vancouver
Dates: Aug. 2-9, 1936; Dec. 7, 1916; Aug. 1864; undatedContainer: Box/Folder A2/47B -
Description: Memorabilia
Fare for Pop's Coffee House near Morrison Street Bridge; notice of discontinuance of complimentary meals and berths to pass holders on the River and Puget Sound Steamboats; program from the U.S.S. Monterey evening entertainment and dance
Dates: undated; July 19, 1897Container: Box/Folder A2/47C -
Description: Memorablila
Flyer: "The Purpose" advertising light-draft, stern-wheel steamboats to navigate the Yukon River; sailing schedule for Express Sea Service between North Atlantic and Gulf ports and the Pacific Coast ports for Luckenbach Lines of San Francisco
Dates: 1898; 1931Container: Box/Folder A2/47D -
Description: Memorablilia
Menu from the officers banquet of the U.S. ships Baltimore and Charleston hosted by the Columbia Club of Astoria; menus from the French Line Steamers' new twin-screw motor ship Oregon on her first trip to Portland (3)
Dates: 1892; Feb. 6, 1930Container: Box/Folder A1/47E -
Description: Memorabilia
Souvenir of the U.S. Cruiser Baltimore, incl. Specifications and crew list; menus from the United Fruit Company's steamship S.S. Heredia dinner honoring U.S. Spanish American War veterans at sea (2--one autographed)
Dates: 1892; 1928Container: Box/Folder A2/47F -
Description: Memorabilia
24 page pamphlet on the history of "The Famous British Convict Ship Success," program for the J.G.T.S. Taisei-Maru; stickers for the American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. of the Panama Canal Line (6)
Dates: after 1912; Aug. 2, 1930; undatedContainer: Box/Folder A2/47G -
Description: Memorabilia
Invitation to the launching of the S.S. Marine Shark at Vancouver Yard w/ sponsor's luncheon following and 2 lunch passes; news clipping about Capt. Flavel returning by steamer Brother Jonathan from San Francisco
Dates: April 4, 1945; undatedContainer: Box/Folder A2/47H -
Description: Memorabilia
News clipping announcing the departure of the John H. Couch carrying mail for Astoria; business card for The Gray Line Co. of Portland
Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder A2/47I -
Description: Memorabilia
Poem: "The Saga of the Squire" about the maiden voyage of the Watson C. Squire; pamphlet: "Lasco Shipping Co." commemorating the fleet of 16 bulk carriers and tankers of Lasco Shipping Co.
Dates: undated; 1976Container: Box/Folder A2/47J -
Description: Alfred McCully--engineer certificates (12)Dates: 1873-1885Container: Box/Folder A2/48
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Description: Missourian (American-Hawaiian Steamship Co.)—First bill of lading through the Panama Canal
Pasted on the back of a General Land Office certificate for Nathan W. Allen of Douglas County, Or., 1865
Dates: 1919, Nov. 13Container: Box/Folder Oversize 1 -
Description: Modeste (ship)--announcement of the evening's entertainmentDates: Jan. 5, 1867Container: Box/Folder A2/49
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Description: Nootka Sound Service Ltd.--passenger schedule w/ mapDates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder A2/50
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Description: Norma(steamer)
History "Does Anyone Remember?" of the career of the Norma; 2 page unsigned letter on Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway Company letterhead about the Norma and some of its crew, and Teddy Roosevelt
Dates: 1891-1912; undatedContainer: Box/Folder A2/51 -
Description: Norma (steamer)
Sheet from the Journal's files of news clippings "In Earlier Days;" 3 page excerpt from "In Earlier Days;" letters (6); Oregonian editorials "The Norma Did it in '95" (2); letters from Oregonian re: lost editorial "Grand Old Lady" (2)
Dates: undated; 1902-1913; 1954; 1948; undatedContainer: Box/Folder A2/51A -
Description: North Pacific Transportation Co.--bill of lading (blank)Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder A2/52
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Description: Olympia (ship)—booklet: "The Bounding Bellow"Dates: June 1898Container: Box/Folder A2/53
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Description: Open River Transportation Co.
Copies of superintendent's report on the opening of the Columbia River through the construction of the Portage Railway and the operation of steamers on the river (3); rates; stock certificates (4)
Dates: Nov. 1, 1905; 1906Container: Box/Folder A2/54 -
Description: Oregon (steamship)
Waybills (3); market status report on merchandise shipped on the Oregon
Dates: 1878-79; Aug. 30, 1850Container: Box/Folder A2/55 -
Description: Oregon and China Packet Line--receipt for the Oregon and China Packet Line (blank)Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder A2/56
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Description: Oregon State Highway Commission--Astoria-Megler ferry schedulesDates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder A2/57
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Description: Oregon Steam Navigation Co.
Pass from Portland to Umatilla, Jan. 21, 1879; stock certificate, May 15, 1874; advertisement, n.d.; telegram blanks (2)
Dates: 1874-1879Container: Box/Folder A2/58 -
Description: Oregon Steamship Co.
Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws (2); handbill announcing schedules for the OSC on 1 side and the Kansas Pacific Railway on the other; waybills for coal (3); waybills for steamship City of Chester (3)
Dates: undated; Nov. 1878; 1877Container: Box/Folder A2/59 -
Description: Oregon Steamship Co.
Waybills for steamship Ajax (2); bills of lading (2); advertisment for emigration from New England to Oregon, Boston
Dates: 1877; 1878-79; Nov. 7, 1877Container: Box/Folder A2/59A -
Description: Pacific Clipper Line
Bill of lading for shipment on board the S.S. Nome City from Seattle to Nome via Anchorage
Dates: April 29, 1901Container: Box/Folder A2/60 -
Description: Pacific Coast Steamship Co.
Pamphlet of reduced rates on Alaskan excursions with description and time schedules; bills of lading to steamship Ancon (2); bill of lading for steamship Orizaba
Dates: 1895; 1877Container: Box/Folder A2/61 -
Description: Pacific Motorboat Handbook--1930 issueDates: 1930Container: Box/Folder A2/62
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Description: Pacific Steamship Company
Ticket for the steamship Admiral Benson Portland to Astoria; dining saloon check for early dinner, table 12; menu from the S.S. Admiral Farragut with a note from mother to daughter
Dates: 1927; undated; Feb. 18, 1932Container: Box/Folder A2/63 -
Description: Pacific Steamship Lines, Ltd.
Legal document: "Amended Plan of Reorganization of Pacific Steamship Lines, Ltd." Proposed by Debtor
Dates: Jan. 23, 1939Container: Box/Folder A2/64 -
Description: Panama (ship)—Coasting Manifest from the Columbia River bound for San Francisco via Puget SoundDates: April 5, 1860Container: Box/Folder A2/65
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Description: Pearson, A. R., Captain—Poster for "Citizen of the Week," by Portland Traction Company
Pearson had been a Columbia River pilot since 1911.
Dates: circa 1941Container: Box/Folder Oversize 1 -
Description: People's Transportation Co.
Freight receipts (8); certificate for free passage on the first route of both the People's Transportation Co.'s boats and the Davis & Coggins Stage Line
Dates: March 1865-Nov. 1867; Oct. 19-22, 1869Container: Box/Folder A2/66 -
Description: The People's Independent Line—steamer City of Eugene—card for passage between Boones Ferry and EugeneDates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder A2/67
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Description: Port of Portland
Brochure of Swan Island Ship Repair Yard, Dredge Clackamas and the steamer Portland including photograph with legend of the Portland Harbor; brochure of sailings from Portland
Dates: undated; April 1923Container: Box/Folder A2/68 -
Description: Portland (steamer)—receipt for freight, Oregon CityDates: Jan. 30, 1855Container: Box/Folder A2/69
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Description: Portland Ferry--ferry tickets (4)
Ferry tickets (4); advertising blotter, undated (but prior to 1859)
Dates: 1869; undatedContainer: Box/Folder A2/70 -
Description: Portland Steamship Co.—stock certificateDates: 1914Container: Box/Folder A2/71
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Description: Portland Tug Boat Co.—list of stockholders and their sharesDates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder A2/72
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Description: Puget Sound Navigation Co.
Map of Puget Sound country with attention to routes of the Black Ball Line; complimentary passes (4); automobile schedule; various ferry schedules
Dates: undated; June 1867; June 1925; June 1925-Fall 1944Container: Box/Folder A2/73 -
Description: Puget Sound Steam Navigation Co.—prospectus of the PSSN, OlympiaDates: June 12, 1867Container: Box/Folder A2/74
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Description: S.S. Rose City—Poster for service on U.S. west coastDates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder Oversize 1
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Description: Sailing Ships Pacific
Invitation to a reception aboard the Pride of Baltimore; issue Sailing Ships Pacificfeaturing the Portland Maritime Festival; agreement proposed by the American Sail Training Assoc. (blank) with cover letter
Dates: June 30, 1983; 1983; Jan. 22, 1985Container: Box/Folder A3/75 -
Description: Sailing Ships Pacific
Outline for tall ships; list of event chairs for the Oregon Expo '86 tall ships; photocopy of brochure " The American Sailing Associationwith race schedules; packet of results of work done by Tall Ships Transit and Logistics Comm.
Dates: 1985-1986Container: Box/Folder A3/75A -
Description: Sailing Ships Pacific
Application for the Pioneers of Oregon Sail; "Sail Expo '86" port visit and race program; Executive Order No. EO-84-07 of the Oregon Expo '86 Committee
Dates: undated; 1986Container: Box/Folder A3/75B -
Description: Salem Navigation Co.--letterhead stationery (blank)Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder A3/76
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Description: San Francisco and Portland S.S. Co.
Postcard with picture of steamer Columbia; empty envelope with advertisement for the Big 3 and sail times; schedule of sailings for the Big 3 (2)
Dates: March 28, 1906; undated; March 1915 & Oct. 1914Container: Box/Folder A3/77 -
Description: Ship Chandlers--advertisement card for Foard & Stokes Co., AstoriaDates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder A3/78
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Description: Shipwrights
Card for Robert K. Loller, Shipwright, Portland; handbill for Roberts & Co., Salvage & Wrecking Co.
Dates: undated; 1904Container: Box/Folder A3/79 -
Description: Sho-Sho-Nee (steamer)
Handwritten report (6 pages) to the Corps of Engineers, description of the river above Lewiston, Idaho, and 1870 descent of steamer Sho-Sho-Nee
Dates: July 31, 1881Container: Box/Folder A3/80 -
Description: Snake River Transportation Co.--stock certificateDates: 1891Container: Box/Folder A3/81
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Description: Society Expeditions Cruises--Project Unusual Alaska and the Aleutian Islands aboard the AleutiansDates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder A3/82
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Description: Southern Pacific Steamship Lines
Morgan Line passenger list S.S. Dixie sailing from New York to New Orleans; letter from H.E. Lounsbury of the Southern Pacific Company; promotional card: "All Day for a Dollar"
Dates: 1940; 1910; undatedContainer: Box/Folder A3/83 -
Description: Spencer Line
Schedule for the steamer Chas. R. Spencer; schedule for the Portland-Astoria route with fare information; schedule "Columbia River Scenery"
Dates: undated; 1908; 1904Container: Box/Folder A3/84 -
Description: Stark Street Ferry--coupon tickets (7)Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder A3/85
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Description: Starr King--certificate of General Average, State of CaliforniaDates: 1861Container: Box/Folder A3/86
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Description: States Steamship Co.
Announcements of sailings: The S.S. Grays Harbor for Hong Kong, Manila & Cuba, and the S.S. Texas, same destinations (2)
Dates: 1930Container: Box/Folder A3/87 -
Description: Straits Steamship Co.—complimentary passes (3)Dates: 1906-1907Container: Box/Folder A3/88
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Description: T.J. Potter(steamer)
Adult round trip ticket on board the steamer Lurline; menu for the farewell dinner to the stewards of the steamer; notecard with drawing of the T.J. Potter with brief history; 2 page description and story of the steamer; postcard; certificate of gift of booklet containing pictures and explanation of the steamer to the State Capitol Historical Assoc., Olympia; color postcard of the Willamette River at Portland; 2-page personal letter from Emma Gene Miller; postcard to Donald Bates; description of gift from Library of Congress; envelope from Library of Congress; photo postcard of Marine Display in Kalama, Wash., drugstore; envelope of letters to Donald Bates from various sources; envelope of carbon copies of letters sent from Donald Bates; envelope of correspondence; letters to Louis R. Centro from various sources; clipping to the Oregonian; photo model of steamer; bill from Photo-Art Commercial Studios
Dates: 1883-1959Container: Box/Folder A3/89 -
Description: Tarquina—form announcing receipt of goods in San Francisco on board the brig Tarquinabound for PortlandDates: Aug. 4, 1850Container: Box/Folder A3/90
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Description: Telegraph (steamer)
Week-day time cards for Portland (2); announcement of the departure of the Great Republic
Dates: 1906; July 1878Container: Box/Folder A3/91 -
Description: Tenino (steamer) —notarized statement of loyaltyDates: Nov. 1, 1866Container: Box/Folder A3/92
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Description: Tonquin (ship)
Booklet containing 2 histories of the ship, one regarding permanent settlers in Astoria and the other regarding the massacre of the crew and destruction of the Tonquin
Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder A3/93 -
Description: Tonquin (ship)
Letter to Mr. Bates from J. Neilson Barry; carbon copy to reply letter from Mr. Bates; report of validity of witnesses by Rev. J. Neilson Barry
Dates: Oct. 9, 1959; Oct. 12, 1959; undatedContainer: Box/Folder A3/93A -
Description: Tualatin River Navigation & Manufacturing Co.—stock certificateDates: 1871Container: Box/Folder A3/94
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Description: Umatilla (steamer)--handwritten historyDates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder A3/95
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Description: Undine (steamer)—bills and receipts for the steamerDates: May 25, 1892-Nov. 1, 1896Container: Box/Folder A3/96
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Description: Unio (steamer)—receipt for freight of wheat on the steamerDates: Feb. 7, 1862Container: Box/Folder A3/97
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Description: Union Pacific—summer schedule for the North Beach route from Astoria, Or., to Megler, Wash.Dates: 1927Container: Box/Folder A3/98
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Description: Union Transportation Co.—balance sheet listing income, expenses and resourcesDates: March 31, 1861Container: Box/Folder A3/99
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Description: Vancouver Transportation Co.
Complimentary pass between Portland and Vancouver; booklet: The United States Circuit Court of Appeals brief of a river accident
Dates: 1891; after 1906Container: Box/Folder A3/100 -
Description: Wallemus Lines
Commemorative booklets: "Dynamic Development," "Ocean Transport of Cars and Vehicles Worldwide," and "Carried with Care by Wallemus"
Dates: after 1968, after 1970, after 1982Container: Box/Folder A3/101 -
Description: Washington State Ferries
Promotional booklets: "Washington State Ferries: From Small Beginnings to the Finest Ferry Fleet in the Nation" and "Ferry Guide: How Best to Use America's Largest Ferry Fleet for Work and Recreation"
Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder A3/102 -
Description: Washington State Ferries
Promotional pamphlet: "Puget Sound Cruises, Parties & Other Events;" ferry schedules for various routes (9)
Dates: undated; 1957-1983Container: Box/Folder A3/102A -
Description: White Collar Line
Booklet: Up the Columbia, Portland, Cascades, Hood River, White Salmon, The Dalles: compliments of Columbia River and Puget Sound Navigation Co., regarding historic and scenic sights
Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder A3/103 -
Description: Willamette Steamboat Co.--receiptDates: June 30, 1868Container: Box/Folder A3/104
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Description: Wilson G. Hunt (steamship)—Documents (7)
Agreements between masters and crew, including lists of crew members; registration at port of San Francisco; and lists of crew members. The ship was built in New York in 1849.
Dates: 1858-1859Container: Box/Folder Oversize 1 -
Description: Winema (steamboat)—Cloth broadside for "Business Men's Excursion," Klamath Falls to Wood River CountryDates: 1905 July 23Container: Box/Folder Oversize 1
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Description: Yakima (steamer)--list of crewDates: May 16, 1865Container: Box/Folder A3/105
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Description: Zephyr (steamer)—complimentary passDates: 1882Container: Box/Folder A3/106
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Description: Miscellaneous
Promissory note (blank) for Graham's Ferry; receipt from J.W. Graham for payment of wheat; Inspector's Certificate of Official Number, Tonnage, etc. (blank); circular: fog-signals for towing boats
Dates: 1877; 1883; undated; 1884Container: Box/Folder A3/107 -
Description: Miscellaneous
Circular: Sections of Revised Statutes of the United States relating to licensed officers of steam-vessels (3); circular: cautionary notices to pilots of steam-vessels regarding the use of signal whistles
Dates: 1884, 1888, 1892Container: Box/Folder A3/107A -
Description: Miscellaneous
Book of War Revenue Tax Transportation Exemption Certificates, State of Oregon; booklet: Dept of Commerce, Steamboat Inspection Service Pilot Rules for Certain Inland Waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts and of the Gulf of Mexico
Dates: undated; 1924Container: Box/Folder A3/107B -
Description: Miscellaneous
House of Representatives Doc. 21: An Appropration for the Removal of Obstructions to the Navigation of the Umpqua River; booklet: The Significance of Aids to Marine Navigation;
Dates: undated; 1947Container: Box/Folder A3/107C -
Description: Miscellaneous
Legal document: The Documentary Committee of the Japan Shipping Exchange, Inc. Beizai; Legal Agreement between Skibs A/S Aino Arendal of the Norwegian M/V Ancora and Sumitomo Shoji New York, Inc. to ship wheat to Japan
Dates: Jan. 27, 1968; undatedContainer: Box/Folder A3/107D -
Description: Miscellaneous
Chart, "Martime Record of Oregon," produced by Frank J. Smith, listing all sidewheeler and sternwheeler steam ships that were built on and/or which operated on the Columbia River between 1850 and 1917.
Dates: 1917Container: Box/Folder Oversize 1 -
Description: American Mail Line
13 page booklet of General Plans for the American Mail Line, Ltd. By the National Steel & Shipuilding Co. pertaining to Hulls #335 and #336; cargo load diagram of the S.S. Oregon Mail sailing to Yokohama
Dates: undated; 1965Container: Box/Folder A4/108 -
Description: Belle of Oregon (bark)
Agreement of charter by M.S. Burrell to ship a cargo of wheat between Havre and Hamburg; original & duplicate charter (2); index of registers & memo from Ladd & Tilton to Mr. Burrell
Dates: 1881Container: Box/Folder A4/109 -
Description: Columbia Pacific Shipping Company—bill of lading for steamer Oakridge from Portland to Hong KongDates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder A4/110
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Description: The Dalles, Portland & Astoria Navigation Co.
Pass from Portland to the Dalles and return; poster for the Columbia River Regulator Line Steamers; itinerary for the steamer, Bailey Gatzert; U.S. bill of sale of enrolled vessel State of Washington; 2 fare tickets
Dates: 1898; undated; July 1916; Dec. 17, 1915Container: Box/Folder A4/111 -
Description: The Dalles, Portland & Astoria Navigation Co.—set of construction specifications for steamer Bailey Gatzert; flyerDates: undated; 1903Container: Box/Folder A4/111A
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Description: Farmers Transportation Co.
Bill of sale of Lewis and Lake Rivers Transportation Co., of the Latona; bill of sale of The Farmers Transportation Co. of the Latona
Dates: 1882; 1883Container: Box/Folder A4/112 -
Description: Grant Smith-Porter Ship Co.—booklets: "Going Home"Dates: July 1918; Feb. 1919Container: Box/Folder A4/113
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Description: Hough—construction specifications index for the woooden hull of the steamshipDates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder A4/114
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Description: Industry (bark)
Cargo manifest from San Francisco to Astoria; cargo manifest from San Francisco to Portland
Dates: 1860; 1861Container: Box/Folder A4/115 -
Description: Marine Insurance Record—Herman C. Leonard
Instructions to agent; instructions circular for Atlantic Mutual Insurance Co.; letters from the New York Office of the Board of Underwriters (2); appointment of attorney and agent for New York Insurance Co.
Dates: undated; Aug. 1851; Oct. 1852; July 1859Container: Box/Folder A4/116 -
Description: Oneatha (ship)
Abstract of cash returns of steamer Oneatha; wood taken by steamer Oneatha; way bill from The Dalles office (2)
Dates: Sept.; Sept.; Sept.-Oct. 1874Container: Box/Folder A4/117 -
Description: Pacific (steamship)—coasting manifest S.S. Pacific(7); receiptDates: 1860-61; Dec. 16, 1858Container: Box/Folder A4/118
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Description: Samuel Merritt (bark)—coasting manifests between San Francisco and Portland (2)Dates: April 1861; Nov. 1861Container: Box/Folder A4/119
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Description: Sylvia de Grasse —historical description and report of shipwreckDates: Dec. 15, 1857Container: Box/Folder A4/120
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Description: Veteran Steamboatmen of the West
Round trip tickets between Portland and Champoeg (2); 2 page Constitution and By-Laws of Veteran Steamboatmen of the West; roll call; Officers of the Veteran Steamboatmen's Assoc.
Dates: undated; 1936; 1943-44; 1947Container: Box/Folder A4/121 -
Description: Willamette Harbor Club No. 23
Ledger with minutes of the Willamette Harbor Club No. 23 and finances
Dates: 1874-1934, 1901-11 & 1929-34Container: Box/Folder A4/122 -
Description: Wenatchee (steamer)—edgerDates: March-Nov. 1868Container: Box/Folder A4/123
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Description: Whitby Ships
Copy of the Master Rolls of Whitby Ships in which James Cook sailed 1747-55, history
Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder A4/124 -
Description: U.S.S. Willamette
Stickers: U.S.S. Willamette fuel for Freedom AO-180 (2); bumper stickers: "Dammit it's Pronounced WI-LAM-IT!" (2); invitations to receptions for the commissioning (2); information card for guests; offical guest pass
Dates: undated; 1982; undated; undated; undatedContainer: Box/Folder A4/125 -
Description: U.S.S. Willamette
Invitation to the commissioning at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; napkin w/ ship's insignia; portfolio containing 8x10 photo of ship's insignia, shoulder patch, Welcome Aboard flyer with history of the Willamette River and letter of rules on board
Dates: 1982; undated; undatedContainer: Box/Folder A4/125A -
Description: Willamette Iron & Steel Corp.
Authorization to take property from the plant; invitation to the launching of the steamer H.B. Kennedy in Seattle; booklet: "Builders' Trial CVE-114, U.S.S. Rendova" company history
Dates: undated; 1908; 1945Container: Box/Folder A4/126 -
Description: Willamette Iron & Steel Corp.
U.S.S. Sicily CVE-118 introduction to ship and commissioning program; Willamette Handbook for employees; booklet: "Willamette Iron & Steel Corporation in War & Peace"
Dates: undated; 1942; undatedContainer: Box/Folder A4/126A -
Description: Wilson G. Hunt (steamer)
Port Victoria, Vancouver Island, certificates of delivery of sufferance (4); billings (2); receipt; Bill of Health for all aboard at Port of San Francisco; Clearance for departure: to Fraser's River and to San Francisco (2)
Dates: Aug.-Sept. 1858; 1859; 1858; undated; 1858; 1860Container: Box/Folder A4/127 -
Description: Wilson G. Hunt(steamer)
Certificate of Shipment from Victoria to Fraser's River; promissory note; Inspection Certificate, San Francisco; cargo manifest at Port Townsend; Special Permit to go to Mare Island and back to San Francisco
Dates: 1858-1859Container: Box/Folder A4/127A -
Description: Miscellaneous
Rules and regulations, "Office Supervising Inspector of Steamboats, First District," San Francisco; rates for Salem Steam Ferry; promotional flyer: " Virginia V: Last of the Old Steamers;" unidentified shipping ledger
Dates: 1862; 1871; 1988; 1900-1909Container: Box/Folder A4/128 -
Description: Miscellaneous
Legislative bill (HB No. 32) for the prevention of and punishment for enticing and harboring seamen from ships, steamers, and other vessels at the ports of Portland and Astoria; original/duplicate receipt form (blank) from Geo. L. Story
Dates: 1889; undatedContainer: Box/Folder A4/128A -
Description: Canals
The Dalles-Celilo Canal—address of Joseph N. Teal, The Dalles-Celilo Canal Celebration; souvenir ribbon, opening of Celilo Canal; program, The Dalles-Celilo Canal Opening
Dates: 1915; 1915; 1915Container: Box/Folder A4/129 -
Description: Canals
Published letter from Gen. A.A. Humphreys to Hon. J.H. Mitchell re: survey at mouth of Coquille River, Or. ; invitation to dedication of Bonneville Ship Lock; The Panama Canal; reproduction exhibit program
Dates: June 5, 1874; July 9, 1938; 1914Container: Box/Folder A4/130 -
Description: Wayne F. Aldrich, "History of steamships in Oregon and Washington," typescript (carbon)Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder A5/1
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Description: The marine digest / Pacific northwest cross-indexed / 1953 directory and world wide shipping guide.Dates: 1953Container: Box/Folder A5/2
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Description: Wayne F. Aldrich--documents and certificates from the U.S. Coast GuardDates: 1950-1960Container: Box/Folder A5/3
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Description: Article from Engineering News titled "The proposed boat railway around the The Dalles rapids of the Columbia River." Includes diagrams.Dates: Sept. 12, 1891Container: Box/Folder A5/4
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Description: National Labor Relations Board transcript, "In the matter of Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation, et. al., and Kaiser Company, Inc., et. al."; scale drawing of a ship.Dates: 1943; 1942Container: Box/Folder A5/5
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Description: Kaiser Company materials
"Your Swan Island Handbook," 1943; "Instructions to loftsmen," undated; "Launching of the U.S.S. Alazon Bay," 1943 Apr. 5; "Ships for victory," ca. 1943; "The ships we build," ca. 1944; "Tanker champions of the world," ca. 1944; "Launching S.S.Bent's Fort," 1945 Oct. 27; "Procedure for trial run, S.S. Black Hills, K.C.I. Portland," 1944 Oct. 21; misc. data sheets, ca. 1941-1944.
Dates: 1941-1945Container: Box/Folder A5/6 -
Description: Kaiser Company—Picture of tanker, with related materialsDates: 1944Container: Box/Folder Oversize 1
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Description: General Steamship Corporation, Ltd., "Pacific coast shipping handbook" (2)Dates: 1935; 1938Container: Box/Folder A5/7
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Description: Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation: materials relating to ship launchings
Includes programs, reports, and ephemera, ca. 1941-1944; Record breakers magazine, ca. 1944.
Dates: ca. 1941-1944Container: Box/Folder A5/8 -
Description: Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation—clippings (photocopy) relating to the launching of the Ephraim BaughmanDates: 1943Container: Box/Folder A5/9
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Description: Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation
"Launching S.S. Star of Oregon, September 27, 1941" (report, mimeographed); "Margery E. Moore" (record of launchings, sponsors, progress reports, history of yard, etc.), ca. 1944
Dates: 1941-1944Container: Box/Folder A5/10
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Series B: Aviation, 1919-1976
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Description: Air France—breakfast menus for Los Angeles to Paris direct flight (2)Dates: 1971Container: Box/Folder B1/1
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Description: American Airlines—baggage stickers (2)Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder B1/2
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Description: American Airlines—Menus and safety brochure for trans-Atlantic serviceDates: circa 1972Container: Box/Folder Oversize 3
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Description: Braniff International—timetableDates: 1972Container: Box/Folder B1/3
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Description: Cascade Airways—timetableDates: 1975Container: Box/Folder B1/4
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Description: Continental Airlines
Entertainment pamphlet: "Golden Marquee Theatre;" quick reference schedule; route map packet
Dates: undated; 1967; 1972Container: Box/Folder B1/6 -
Description: Earl Aircraft Corporation—stock certificate for Newt LangermanDates: May 21, 1919Container: Box/Folder B1/7
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Description: Eastern Air Lines—baggage stickerDates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder B1/8
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Description: Gorst Air Transport—promotional pamphlet w/ timetableDates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder B1/9
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Description: Harbor Airlines—quick reference scheduleDates: 1975Container: Box/Folder B1/10
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Description: Hughes Airwest—travel planner; timetables (6)Dates: 1973; 1970-1976Container: Box/Folder B1/11
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Description: Intermountain West—timetableDates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder B1/12
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Description: Northwest Airlines—baggage stickers (2); timetables (9)Dates: undated; 1934-1969Container: Box/Folder B1/13
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Description: Pacific Air Lines—timetableDates: 1967Container: Box/Folder B1/14
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Description: Sun Valley Air—summer scheduleDates: 1970Container: Box/Folder B1/15
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Description: Trans World Airlines—timetableDates: 1967Container: Box/Folder B1/16
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Description: United Airlines
Promotional flyer: "Untied Airlines Announce A Second Daily Coast-to-Coast Passenger Service De Luxe!;" In-flight menus (8); promotional pamphlet: "Celebrate the West! A Unique Place to Live, An Exciting Place to Visit;" timetables (12)
Dates: undated; various dates; undated; 1931-1979Container: Box/Folder B1/17 -
Description: Varney Air Lines—informational pamphlet w/ timetable and mapsDates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder B1/18
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Description: West Coast Airlines
Promotional pamphlets: "West Coast Airlines' New Services" and Jetbus w/ flight schedule; timetables (10); supplemental quick reference schedule
Dates: undated & undated; 1957-1967; 1966Container: Box/Folder B1/19 -
Description: Western Air Lines—timetables (3)Dates: 1941; 1963; 1975Container: Box/Folder B1/20
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Description: Airports
Souvenir ticket from Portland Annual Air Derby at Swan Island Airport; promotional pamphlet: "Port of Portland: Aviation;" Summary Report in favor of proposed airport at Arlington, Or.
Dates: 1927; undated; undatedContainer: Box/Folder B1/21 -
Description: Airports
Programs: First Annual Air Circus at Hillsboro Airport, Dedication of Pearson Field and Spokane-Columbia Gorge-Portland Air Races
Dates: 1928; Sept. 16, 1925; 1927Container: Box/Folder B1/21A -
Description: Miscellaneous
Business card, P.B. Smith w/ Rankin School of Flying; Tuck's post card collection with envelope, Aviation series; pamphlet: promoting Skyways Aviation Facility; Tale Spins publication; account sheet, S&M Flying Service, N. Langerman
Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder B1/22 -
Description: Miscellaneous
Program: Admiral Byron's flight to North Pole; telegram and letters Dept. of Commerce to N. Langerman (4); letters from Hearst Newspapers to N. Langerman (2); Air Traffic Rules, Dept. of Commerce, Aeronautics Branch
Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder B1/22A -
Description: Miscellaneous
Promotional publication: Aero-Quad; prefabricated plane hangers
Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder B1/22B
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Series C: Automobiles, bicycles, express, stages, buses, roads, highways, streetcars, and wagons, 1854-2012
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Description: Portland Automobile Club--programs: 1st and 2nd Annual Automobile Show (2)Dates: 1909-1910Container: Box/Folder C1/1
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Description: Miscellaneous
Oregon State Highway Dept. cover envelope; guide, United Motor Courts; motor vehicle operator's licenses, Clarence E. Talman and Leslie Leo Cunningham; prospectus for Bridge of the Gods; motor vehicle inspection card; registration card for Edward T. Price; The Oregon motorist's manual for 1931.
Dates: 1920-1960; undatedContainer: Box/Folder C1/2 -
Description: Miscellaneous
Ride sharing agreement; blank application for supplemental and occupational mileage ration
Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder C1/2A -
Description: Miscellaneous
Pamphlet: "Cool Bicycle Safety Rules;" bicycle drivers manual; pamphlet: "Oregon Bikeways;" Report Bureau of Municipal Research & Service—Bicycle Control in Metropolitan Cities
Dates: 1977; 1978; undated; 1941Container: Box/Folder C1/3 -
Description: Miscellaneous
Flyer: "The Launching of the Great Blue Fleet," Portland; souvenir program: First Annual Meet of the League of American Wheelmen
Dates: 1972; July 3-5, 1897Container: Box/Folder C1/3A -
Description: American Express Company—envelopeDates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder C1/4
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Description: Barker Motor Bus Co.—timetable no. 1Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder C1/5
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Description: Bartlett Springs Stage Line—promotional cardDates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder C1/6
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Description: California and Oregon United States Mail Line—Way bills (7, original and copies)Dates: 1867; undatedContainer: Box/Folder Oversize 4
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Description: California Transit Company—timetable for Pioneer StagesDates: May 1928Container: Box/Folder C1/7
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Description: Coast Overland Mail Company—Time tables, California and Oregon (2)Dates: 1875; 1877Container: Box/Folder Oversize 4
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Description: Continental Trailways—timetables (5)Dates: 1949-1971Container: Box/Folder C1/8
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Description: Cram, Rogers & Co.
Company letter to patrons informing of name change; blank special deposit pages (21); promissory note; bill for collection
Dates: undated; undated; March 1861; Nov. 1854Container: Box/Folder C1/9 -
Description: Daily Auto Stage, Mt. Hood and way points—PosterDates: 1911 June 21Container: Box/Folder Oversize 4
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Description: "Daily overland mail route to Oregon, Washington Territory and British Columbia"—Broadside
Broadside for stage service between Sacramento and the Pacific Northwest, Henry W. Corbett & Co., proprietor.
Dates: 1867 June 1Container: Box/Folder Oversize 4 -
Description: The Gray Line
Promotional pamphlets: "Portland, Oregon," "Really See Portland, Oregon: Mt. Hood Loop and Columbia River Highway," "Seeing Portland, Oregon" (2 versions) and "Seeing San Francisco"
Dates: 1981, 1959-60, circa 1939; undated, undatedContainer: Box/Folder C1/10 -
Description: Greyhound
Promotional calender card; booklet: "America's Famous Festivals Best Reached By Greyhound;" timetables for various routes (32)
Dates: 1973; undated; 1930-1974Container: Box/Folder C1/11 -
Description: Heppner-Canyon City Stage Line—Way bills (3)Dates: 1899-1900Container: Box/Folder Oversize 4
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Description: Hoffman's Express—blank pages of promissory notes (3)Dates: 185?Container: Box/Folder C1/12
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Description: McLeran Bros. Stage Line—fare tickets (3)Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder C1/13
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Description: Mt. Hood Stages, Inc.—annual passDates: 1941Container: Box/Folder C1/14
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Description: North Coast Transportation Co.
Business pass; timetables (2)
Dates: 1941; 1937, 1944Container: Box/Folder C1/15 -
Description: Oregon Auto-Despatch—blank business cardDates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder C1/16
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Description: Oregon Land, Mining and Transportation Company—Articles of incorporation, IllinoisDates: 1880Container: Box/Folder Oversize 4
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Description: Oregon Motor Stages
Pamphlet: "To Oregon's Playground via the Beach Route;" timetables for various routes (4)
Dates: undated; 1935, 1937, 1940, 1944Container: Box/Folder C1/17 -
Description: Oregon Stages System—timetables (3)Dates: 1927, 1929, 1930Container: Box/Folder C1/18
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Description: Overland Freight Transfer Company—way billDates: Dec. 28, 1878Container: Box/Folder C1/19
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Description: Pacific Express Company—letter to company from A. McKinleyDates: June 3, 1887Container: Box/Folder C1/20
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Description: Portland-Banks Stage Line
Timetable card; 30-trip commutation tickets
Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder C1/21 -
Description: Portland-Gresham Stage Line—bus scheduleDates: 1927Container: Box/Folder C1/22
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Description: Reliance Mt. Hood Stages—promotional booklets: "Mt. Hood by Auto" (2)Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder C1/23
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Description: Rose City Tours, Inc.—promotional pamphlet: "Oregon Sightseeing Tours"Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder C1/24
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Description: Rose City Transit Co.
Transfers from various routes (55); employee's pass book; timetables (3)
Dates: undated; 1965, 1967, 1984Container: Box/Folder C1/25 -
Description: Rose City Transit Company bus line schedulesDates: 1965-1969; 1965-1966Container: Box/Folder C3/12
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Description: Rose City Transit Company noticesDates: 1965-1966Container: Box/Folder C3/13
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Description: Rose City Transit Company - Petition for service to Lewis & Clark CollegeDates: 1965 OctoberContainer: Box/Folder C3/14
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Description: Tracks of History—Poster for Historic Preservation Week, PortlandDates: 1987 MayContainer: Box/Folder Oversize 4
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Description: Suburban Transportation System—timetableDates: 1956Container: Box/Folder C1/26
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Description: T. Cunningham & Co.—advertisment for the Schuttler WagonDates: Jan. 1874Container: Box/Folder C1/27
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Description: Tracy & Co.'s Express
Receipt of delivery; blank receiving book
Dates: Nov. 9, 1860; undatedContainer: Box/Folder C1/28 -
Description: Tri-Met
Rider Alerts (2); promotional pamphlets: "The Portland Mall" (3); Tri-Met Ride Atlas (3); Tri-Met Route Map; pamphlet: "Routes from Downtown to Beaver Service Area"; timetable No. 51 Council Crest
Dates: 1977-2005Container: Box/Folder C2/1 -
Description: Tri-Met
Booklets explaining Tri-Met finances, public image, bus companies and the importance of mass transit (4); promotional booklet: "Moving onto the Mall;" pamphlet: new cards for senior and disabled citizens; schedule for 3 day MAX celebration
Dates: undated; 1976Container: Box/Folder C2/1A -
Description: Tri-Met
Pamphlets: "Test Your Gasoline-Saving Knowledge," "Bus into Summer," "Portland/Vancouver Interstate Bus Service;" invitation to innagural ceremonies for Light Rail System; souvenir envelope, first day operation Light Rail Transit; Rose Festival Service, 2005; Rider Insider, Summer 2005; Bike Rider's Guide, circa 2004; Blue Lake Suttle schedule, 2005 May.
Dates: 1996-2005; undatedContainer: Box/Folder C2/1B -
Description: Tri-Met
Pamphlet: "Tri-Met Funfare: Portland Flowers & Parks;" booklet: "Mess Kit: How to Get Through, Over or Around that Temporary Obstacle Course on the Banfield Freeway"
Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder C2/1C -
Description: Tri-Met
Envelope with miscellaneous tickets, passes & transfers; photocopies of route maps No. 66 and 63 (3); pamphlet: "Tri-Met's New Improved Westside Service;" promotional flyer: "Tri-Met Light Rail. Mass Transit at its Best;" "Tri-Met" publications (2); "RiderInsider," 2005-
Dates: 1970-2005; undatedContainer: Box/Folder C2/2 -
Description: Tri-Met
Flyers: "There are 7 ways to Have Good Day…," "Tracks of History: Historic Preservation Week May 9-16, 1987;" revised service plan; pre-inaugural ride certificate, light rail; history of Banfield Light Rail Project; speed riding manual
Dates: 1980-1987; undatedContainer: Box/Folder C2/2A -
Description: Tri-Met
Fact sheets, Banfield Light Rail Project, No.1 and No.2 (2); rider update: "Hot Trains"
Dates: 1982; undatedContainer: Box/Folder C2/2B -
Description: Tri-Met
Informational packets: "Presenting Two Ways to Turn Your Daily Commute into A Rewarding Experience" (3); timetable book, all routes; "How to ride" (guide in multiple languages); "How to ride : MAX Yellow Line"
Dates: undated; 1994; 2003-2004Container: Box/Folder C2/3 -
Description: Tri-Met--transportation guide and map (3)Dates: 1985; 1986; 1989-90Container: Box/Folder C2/4
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Description: Tualatin Valley Buses, Inc.Dates: 1963-1966Container: Box/Folder C3/15
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Description: Union Pacific Stages
Employee passes (2); timetables (7); timetable cards (3)
Dates: 1939 and 1941; 1927-1943; undatedContainer: Box/Folder C3/1 -
Description: Westside Light RailDates: 1992; undatedContainer: Box/Folder C3/1A
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Description: Wilson River and Tillamook Stage--fare tickets (3)Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder C3/2
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Description: W.D. & F. Co.--dray tickets (3)Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder C3/3
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Description: Passenger Tickets & Schedules
Shuttlebug schedule; Albany City Bus Schedule; Intercity Busses, Inc., one fare; purser's check, Oregon City to Portland; steamer traveler, one fare; B. Gakin dray ticket; J.E. Walsh dray ticket
Dates: 1976; undatedContainer: Box/Folder C3/4 -
Description: Miscellaneous Trolleys and Buses
Business Directory & Trolley Guide; Portland Traction Co. weekly pass; Seattle Electric Co. transfer tickets (2); hack license; flyer: Trolley Bus; Watts Watt, vol. IX, no. 25; pamphlet: Free Bus, Old Town Bus Co, with route map
Dates: 1926-27; 1939; undated; 1898; undated; undated; undatedContainer: Box/Folder C3/5 -
Description: Street Car Efficiency Club, Rose City Park, Portland, Constitution and By-Laws; "An analysis of the porposed freight truck and bus bill," Allied Truck Owners, Inc.Dates: undated; 1932 Aug.Container: Box/Folder C3/6
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Description: Wagons, miscellaneous—Fish Bros. & Co's. advertisment; plans for buckboard wagonDates: 1986; undatedContainer: Box/Folder C3/7
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Description: Roads and highways
Program for ceremony at opening of the Columbia River Highway, 1920 Sept. 6; newspaper ad in opposition to construction of I-205, 1964; meeting notifications, Citizens Advisory Committee, Oregon Highway Division (2); public meeting notification and information release regarding Columbia River Highway; conference registration form, "Moving Oregon into the 21st century"
Dates: 1920; 1964; March 28, 1988 and May 12, 1988; 1987; 1988Container: Box/Folder C3/8 -
Description: Roads and highways
U.S. Dept. of Transportation release; Pacific Highway postcard series; program: dedication ceremony celebrating completion of I-82 and the Oregon Interstate System; pamphlet: "Oregon Roadside Council: SOS-Save Oregon Scenery"
Dates: 1987-1988; undatedContainer: Box/Folder C3/9 -
Description: St. Johns Bridge—Commemorative picture, Bushong & Co.Dates: circa 1931Container: Box/Folder Oversize 4
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Description: Stages, Miscellaneous
Receipt from Oregon Stage Company, 1867 June 1; receipt from T. Mcf. Patton, People's Transportation Company, Salem, 1872 July 15
Dates: 1867; 1872Container: Box/Folder C3/10 -
Description: Portland Street CarDates: circa 2007-2012Container: Box/Folder C3/11
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Description: Wells, Fargo & Co.—Placards (2)
Placards from a Wells, Fargo office of the mid-19th century, printed by Bacon & Co., San Francisco: "Drafts on London, Dublin and Paris for Sale Here," and "Important! The value of letters containing mondy, etc., must be stated..."
Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder Oversize 4 -
Description: "Gold dust shipped to the Atlantic states and insured"—Poster, San Francisco
Poster printed by Towne & Bacon, San Francisco, probably from mid-19th century
Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder Oversize 4
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Series D: Railroads, circa 1845-2000
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Description: Albina Transportation Co.—fare coupons (4)Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder D1/1
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Description: Amtrak--Tours "Pacific Northwest"Dates: 1998Container: Box/Folder D1/2
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Description: Amtrak--promotional pamphletDates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder D1/2A
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Description: Amtrak—timetablesDates: 1971-1991Container: Box/Folder D2/2B
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Description: Association of American Railroads: lubrication manual and shop maintenance leafletDates: 1950Container: Box/Folder D1/3
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Description: Astoria & Columbia River Railroad Co.—promotional booklet for departures from Portland to the sea; pass for 1909Dates: undated; 1909Container: Box/Folder D1/4
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Description: Astoria and South Coast Railway Co.—specifications for construction of railroadDates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder D1/5
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Description: Astoria, North Shore & Willapa Harbor Railroad—application to purchase 10 sharesDates: 1924Container: Box/Folder D1/6
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Description: Atlantic & Pacific Railroad
Committee Report on the proposed railroad to Oregon in the U. S. House of Representatives; J. Whitney's reply to the Hon. S. A. Douglass
Dates: 1845; 1945Container: Box/Folder D1/7 -
Description: Burlington Northern—timetablesDates: 1970Container: Box/Folder D1/8
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Description: California Western Railroad—promotional pamphletsDates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder D1/9
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Description: Canadian Pacific Railroad
Article with map of proposed line construction at Vancouver; souvenir menus for The Mountaineer; Canadian Engineer's permanent pass
Dates: 1912-1919Container: Box/Folder D1/10 -
Description: Cascades Railroad Company—blank stock certificates (2)Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder D1/11
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Description: Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad—Time table and safety regulations (photocopy)Dates: April 2, 2000Container: Box/Folder D8/108
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Description: Central Pacific Railroad Co.
Booklet: "Relations between the Central Pacific Railroad Company and the United States Government"; 3-map combo showing the results if the Union Pacific is allowed to monopolize Western America
Dates: 1889; 1920Container: D1/12 -
Description: Central Pacific Railroad Co.
Booklet "Legal Features of the Central Pacific Case as Affecting Intermountain Development Union Pacific System," Salt Lake City, including map
Dates: after 1922Container: D1/12A -
Description: Central Pacific Railway Co.
Application of the Southern Pacific Co. to acquire control of Central Pacific Railway Co.; keepsake reproductions
Dates: 1922; 1969Container: D1/12B -
Description: Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy Railroad Co.—timetable, Burlington routeDates: April 1967Container: D1/13
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Description: City and Suburban Railway Co.
Transfers (6); fares for observation car (3); street-car fares (2); fare tickets (5)
Dates: undatedContainer: D1/14 -
Description: Clackamas Southern Railway Co.—booklet: Oregon City Press promoting railroad in Clackamas CountyDates: 1911Container: D1/15
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Description: Columbia and Nehalem River Railroad—description of railroad, map and inspection reportDates: Sept. 1918Container: D8/92
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Description: Columbia and Puget Sound Railroad Co.—articles of incorporation and by-lawsDates: 1880Container: D1/16
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Description: Corvallis & Eastern Railroad Co.
Receipt for reduced priced passenger ticket to the Pioneer Reunion; round trip pass bewteen Detroit and Portland
Dates: 1910; 1899Container: D1/17 -
Description: Dayton & Sheridan Narrow Gauge Railroad—history of the roadDates: 1884Container: D1/18
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Description: Dayton, Sheridan & Grande Ronde Railroad Co.—list of contributors to secure a railroad up the South Yamhill (12 pages)Dates: 1879Container: D8/93
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Description: Lohman & Co., Engineers, Eugene & Pacific Electric Railway —hard bound preliminary report on the physical and financial features of the proposed Eugene & Pacific Electric Railway, including Blueprints
Proposal for a steam or electric railroad from Eugune to Florence, Oregon, along the Long Tom River, Lake Creek, and the Siuslaw River. The railroad was never built.
Describes economic and geographic characteristics of western Lane County; discusses comparative advantages of steam and electric railroads in the area; estimates construction costs and potential income for both steam and electric railroads on the proposed route. Includes tables, photographs, and map.
Dates: 1909Container: D1/19 -
Description: Great Northern Railroad
Oriental Limited Train Dictionary; Great Northern Railway emblem; ink blotters (2); brochure on dining car service; promotional pamphlets for Empire Builder(3); flyer promoting railway progress, including itinerary
Dates: undatedContainer: D2/20 -
Description: Great Northern Railway
Pass from Spokane to Seattle; passenger's check from Portland to Bellingham; booklet: dedication and opening of the New Cascade Tunnel; menu of "Columbia River Historical Expedition, 1929"
Dates: 1899; 1913; 1929Container: D2/20A -
Description: Great Northern Railway
Autographed menu during National Apple Week; booklet: Program of events, Upper Missouri Historical Expedition, itinerary of Upper Missouri Special via Great Northern Railway; brochure: "The Great Northern Goat"
Dates: Oct. 31-Nov. 6 1934; July 16-21 1925; Sept. 1926Container: D2/20B -
Description: Great Northern Railway
History of the Great Northern Railway System; poster w/ timetable; program of events Columbia River Historical Expedition Itinerary of Columbia River Special; pamphet "Eastern Trips for Western People"
Dates: 1857-1905; July 1862; July 15-27 1926; 1912Container: D2/20C -
Description: Great Northern Railroad—timetablesDates: 1898-1969Container: D2/21
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Description: Idaho & Washington Northern Railroad—timetable No. 15Dates: Oct. 6, 1912Container: D2/22
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Description: Lake Whatcom Railway—promotional brochure and passenger schedule for steam train excursionDates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder D2/23
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Description: Lima Shay Locomotives—catalogues of locomotives (2)Dates: 1919; 1925Container: Box/Folder D2/24
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Description: Metropolitan Railway Co.—rulebookDates: 1889Container: Box/Folder D2/25
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Description: The Milwaukee Road—brochure of recipes from George Rector, Director of Cuisine; timetableDates: April 1931; 1939Container: Box/Folder D2/26
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Description: Mt. Hood Railroad
Pamphlet on Hood River Valley; paper engineer's cap; pamphlet on history of Mt. Hood Railroad with excursion schedule; company checks
Dates: undated;Container: Box/Folder D2/27 -
Description: Mt. Hood Railway
Copies of the proposal for building railroad (2); perspective of map showing approx. route of the Mt. Hood Railway Co.; set of blank specifications for grading
Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder D2/28 -
Description: North Bank Railway
Invitation to the driving of the spike; ticket to the Drive Golden Spike Ceremony; brocure commemorating the fifth anniversary of Driving the Golden Spike
Dates: March 11, 1908; 1913Container: Box/Folder D2/29 -
Description: Northern Pacific Railway Co.
Sticker; flyer advertising railroad; advertisment; ticket stubs from Seattle to Portland (2); ink blotter; tray service menu; invitation to be Grand Marshal; printed letter from Grand Marshal on completion of railroad
Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder D2/30 -
Description: Northern Pacific Railway Co.
Price list of fares, handwritten; return tickets from San Francisco to Sausalito (2); promotional pamphlet for Vista-Dome North Coast Limited (2); business reply postcard; special coach fares flyers (2)
Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder D2/30A -
Description: Northern Pacific Railway Co.
Dining car service menu, Yellowstone Park Line; Apple Day Menu; hardbound books of pictures from the Lakes and Mississippi River to the Pacific (2); summer excursion fares to Yellowstone National Park
Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder D2/30B -
Description: Northern Pacific Railway Co.
Admission ticket to entertainment honoring opening of Northern Pacific Railroad; list of guests; employees handbook of safety rules; luncheon menu, Yellowstone Park; booklet: "Train Service Guide"
Dates: Sept. 11, 1883; Sept. 1883; 1946; 1910; 1966Container: Box/Folder D2/30C -
Description: Northern Pacific Railway Co.
Pamphet: "Guide to Points of Interest on the Scenic Route Across America; 13th Annual Report; 14th Annual Report
Dates: 1965; 1909; 1910Container: Box/Folder D2/30D -
Description: Northern Pacific Railway Co.—timetablesDates: 1909-1969Container: Box/Folder D2/31
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Description: Northwest Transportation Co.—brochure on class and commodity rates between Portland and The DallesDates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder D3/32
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Description: Northwest United Development Railway Co.—"menu" given to members of Portland's Transportation FamilyDates: Dec. 16, 1911Container: Box/Folder D3/33
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Description: Oregon & California Railroad Co.
Passenger check; menu; ticket for $100 of 5% bonds; Common Shares Reorganization Scrip & Ticket account; capital stock certificate for 2 shares; booklet in German and 7% Oregon and California R.R.I. Mortgage Bonds
Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder D3/34 -
Description: Oregon &d California Railroad Co.
Tickets for fractions of Common Stock (5); sepia map of western Oregon; form letter; special regulations for exchange of scrip; regulations of issue of definitive shares; stockholder's reconstruction certificate
Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder D3/34A -
Description: Oregon & California Railroad Co.
6% Mortgage Gold Bonds (in German); invitation to a banquet at the completion of the railroad; blank receipt form; blank envelope; railroad letter from Jesse Applegate
Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder D3/34B -
Description: Oregon & California Railroad Co.
Menu for Farwell Dinner; excursion ticket from Portland to McMinnville and return; program for Last Spike Ceremonies (2); letters from London; check for $2,900
Dates: 1883; 1889; 1887; 1887 & 1922; 1871Container: Box/Folder D3/34C -
Description: Oregon & California Railroad Co.
Waybills from Salem to Oregon & California Railroad Co. (3); statement of New Earnings; Traffic Statistics of Business (2); booklet in German; copy of letter re: stock sale
Dates: 1872-1884Container: Box/Folder D3/34D -
Description: Oregon & California Railroad Co.
Report on the preliminary survey of the Oregon & California Railroad; petition for instructions to the U.S. Circuit Court on Long and Short Hall Competition; appeal address made by A.W. Lafferty
Dates: 1865; 1887; 1959Container: Box/Folder D3/34E -
Description: Oregon & California Railroad Co.
Instructions to agents and baggagemen relating to baggage; table of earinings 1873-1884; blank indenture form; map of Oregon & Calififornia Railroad and its connections; essay on railroad history (10 pages)
Dates: 1873-1884; undatedContainer: Box/Folder D8/94 -
Description: Oregon & California Railroad Co.
Copy of Statement of Expenditures for maintenance of property in 1881 and 5 years previous; sheet of tickets; Ordinance No. 94 granting the right to lay and maintain railroad track in La Fayette, Or.
Dates: 1881; undatedContainer: Box/Folder D8/94A -
Description: Oregon & California Transportation Co.—stock certificateDates: 1908Container: Box/Folder D3/35
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Description: Oregon & Transcontinental Co.—stock certificateDates: 1887Container: Box/Folder D3/36
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Description: Oregon Branch Pacific Railroad—stock certificates (4)Dates: 1868; 1871; undatedContainer: Box/Folder D3/37
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Description: Oregon Branch Pacific Railroad Co.—blank stock certificateDates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder D8/95
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Description: Oregon Central Railroad
Articles of incorporation and by-laws; blank series A bond certificate
Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder D3/38 -
Description: Oregon, California & Eastern Railway Co.—timetable No. 5Dates: 1929Container: Box/Folder D3/39
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Description: Oregon Electric Railway Co.
Circular no.1: issue and use of passes; circular no. 2: instructions to Motormen and Trainmen; circular no. 13: farewell address of Syndicate Managers; circular no. 14: appointment of Acting General Manager
Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder D3/40 -
Description: Oregon Electric Railway Co.
Acknowledgements of fare paid on the Certificate Plan (3); yearly pass
Dates: 1910; 1933Container: Box/Folder D3/40A -
Description: Oregon Electric Railway Co.—time tables (photocopy) and related information.Dates: 1908-1909Container: Box/Folder D8/100
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Description: Oregon Pacific & Eastern Railway Co.
Timecard; postcard of locomotive No. 19
Dates: 1926Container: Box/Folder D3/41 -
Description: Oregon Pacific Railroad
Employee's trip pass; caution to investors re: "Oregon Pacific"; publication: "Facts Relating to the So-Called Oregon Pacific Railroad"
Dates: 1894;Container: Box/Folder D3/42 -
Description: Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co.
Business card of G.A. Emery; promotional booklet for North Beach, Wash.; booklet on Outings in Oregon; Second Annual Report; rules and regulations; menu of dining car service; pamphlet: "Ocean, River and Rail" by P. Donan
Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder D3/43 -
Description: Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co.
Booklet: "Scenes in the New Empire;" passes of C.V. McKelvey, ticket agent (17); single trip employee passes (4); pamphlet on Restful Recreation Resorts (2)
Dates: 1889-1906Container: Box/Folder D3/43A -
Description: Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co.
Official list of Officers, Agents, Stations, etc.; letter from General Passenger Agent; souvenir Freight Accounting Bureau; first annual excursion and picnic program; freight bills
Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder D3/43B -
Description: Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co.
Blueprint; legal document
Dates: undated; June 21, 1901Container: Box/Folder D8/96 -
Description: Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co.
Commodity rates; colonist rate brochure to Columbia County
Dates: 1908; 1909Container: Box/Folder D3/43C -
Description: Oregon Railway & Navigation Co.
Photocopy of Articles of Incorporation and by-laws; booklet: "First Mortgage;" booklet: "Mortgage of Further Assurance;" booklet: "Second Annual Report;" booklet: "Third Annual Report"
Dates: 1879-1882Container: Box/Folder D3/44 -
Description: Oregon Railway & Navigation Co.
Booklet: "Circuit Court of the United States: Wells Fargo & Co. vs. Oregon Railway & Navigation Co;" booklet: "Fifth Annual Report;" booklet: "Sixth Annual Report"
Dates: 1883; 1884; 1885Container: Box/Folder D3/44A -
Description: Oregon Railway & Navigation Co.
Booklet: "No. 1035 United States Circuit Court—The Oregonian Railway Co., Ltd. Vs. The Oregon Railway & Navigation Co.;" Articles of Incorporation: The Oregon Railway and Navigation Company
Dates: 1885; 1896Container: Box/Folder D3/44B -
Description: Oregon Railway & Navigation Co.
Ticket envelope; passes (3); articles of incorporation and by-laws; O.R.and No. Co. various properties; stockholder subscription form (blank)
Dates: undated; 1870-1895; 1879; 1884; 1881Container: Box/Folder D3/45 -
Description: Oregon Railway & Navigation Co.
Stockholder subscription forms (4); annual metting of stockholders (2); miscellaneous messages to the stockholders
Dates: 1881; 1882; 1880-1882Container: Box/Folder D3/45A -
Description: Oregon Railway & Navigation Co.
Supplementary articles of incorporation, photocopies (2); copy of resolutions stockholders meeting, photocopies (2); annual report to Secretary of State, photocopy
Dates: 1882 & 1887; 1880 & 1882; 1906Container: Box/Folder D3/46 -
Description: Oregon Railway & Navigation Co.
Legal document: M. Fisk and R.H. McMillen vs. Oregon Railway & Navigation for running over 2 mares and 2 colts; message to the stockholders
Dates: Aug. 27, 1884; 1882Container: Box/Folder D8/97 -
Description: Oregon Railway and Navigation Company—Schedule No. 29Dates: 1886Container: Box/Folder D8/101
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Description: Oregonian Railway Co.
Handwritten lease; lease agreement
Dates: 1881Container: Box/Folder D8/98 -
Description: Oregon Short Line Railroad Co.
Local timetable; booklet: "First Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Oregon Short Line Railroad Company to the Stockholders for the Period from March 16, 1897 to June 30, 1898"
Dates: 1911; 1897-1898Container: Box/Folder D4/47 -
Description: Oregon Short Line Railroad Co.
Ticket for the Railroad Department YMCA, Pocatello, Idaho; notice of rate increase
Dates: 1904; 1885Container: Box/Folder D4/47A -
Description: Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Co.
O.W.R & N. announcement of completion and opening of new freight house and terminal; political pamphlet opposing HB 207; 2000 mile ticket; roster of accounting department
Dates: undated; 1935; 1914; 1916-1917Container: Box/Folder D4/48 -
Description: Oregon Washington Railroad & Navigation Co.
Pamphlet: "Astoria 1811-1911 Centennial Pageant and Sepctacular Historical Jubilee, Aug. 10-Sept. 9"; map of proposed cross state railroad linkup; pocket calendar
Dates: 1911; 1929; 1913Container: Box/Folder D4/48A -
Description: Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Co.—timetablesDates: 1895-1919Container: Box/Folder D4/48B
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Description: Oregon Water Power & Railway Co.
Passes (3); transfers (2); booklets: "Delightful Jaunts by Rail and River to Oregon City and Return in Three Hours" (2); special ticket from Estacada to Hogan and Portland; photo album
Dates: 1904-1906; undated;1903; 1905; undatedContainer: Box/Folder D4/49 -
Description: P.R.L. & P. Co., traffic study chart, Portland, Williams Avenue lineDates: April 16, 1919Container: Box/Folder D8/103
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Description: Pacific Northwest Electric Railway AssociationDates: 1964-1966Container: Box/Folder D8/109
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Description: Pacific Northwest Public Service Company—speeder schedule for Oak Grove Project RailwayDates: 1930Container: Box/Folder D4/50
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Description: Pacific Railroad
Booklet: Oregon branch of the Pacific Railroad petitioning Congress to pass a bill; subscription list; letter from the Secretary of the Interior; Senate Report No. 906
Dates: 1868; undated; 1880; 1883Container: Box/Folder D4/51 -
Description: Pacific Railroad
U.S. Congress Senate Report regarding national railroad from the Mississippi to the Columbia River; booklet: "Extracts from the Report of the U.S. Pacific Railway Commission;" speech of William H. Seward to the U.S. Senate
Dates: 1846; 1888; 1858Container: Box/Folder D4/51A -
Description: Pacific Railroad
Speech of Hon. D.C. Bradrick, U.S. Senate, re: Pacific Railroad Bill; policy of extending government aid to additional railroads to the Pacific; Senate Reports #219
Dates: 1859; 1869; 1869Container: Box/Folder D4/51B -
Description: Pacific Railroad
Booklet: "The Pacific Railroads & Relations Exisiting Between them and the Government of the U.S.;" petition to secure the passage of the North Pacific Railroad through Washington Territory with Terrines on the Columbia at Vancouver
Dates: 1879; 1870Container: Box/Folder D4/51C -
Description: Port of Tillamook Bay Railroad
Pamphlet promoting special excursion train through the Coast Range and Salmonberry River Canyon, the Coast Range Explorer
Dates: 1992Container: Box/Folder D4/52 -
Description: Portland & West Coast Railroad & Navigation Co.—excerpt from Oregon StatesmanDates: 1911Container: Box/Folder D4/53
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Description: Portland Cable Railway Co.
Trustees certificate for 126 shares
Dates: 1892Container: Box/Folder D4/54 -
Description: Portland Consolidated Railway Co.
Promotional pamphlet "Seeing Portland;" official ground plan of the Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition; transfer between South Portland and Mt. Tabor; map and information describing street car rides in Portland; 4 fare tickets
Dates: undated; 1905; 1914; 1905Container: Box/Folder D4/55 -
Description: Portland, Dalles, and Salt Lake Railroad
HB 28 memorial of the legislature of Idaho asking for aid in the construction of the Portland, Dalles and Salt Lake Railroad
Dates: 1873Container: Box/Folder D4/56 -
Description: Portland, East Portland and Albina Transportation Co.—ticket for one fareDates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder D4/57
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Description: Portland Electric Power Company
Special police ticket, 50 coupons; PEPCO employee pass and ID card belonging to P. Williamson; trolley guides (2); tickets (3)
Dates: undated; 1927Container: Box/Folder D4/58 -
Description: Portland Railway Company
Promotional pamphlet of various routes; transfer; souvenir excursion tickets (2); pamphlet: "Tourists Souvenir Guide for Portland, Oregon"; fare tickets (6)
Dates: 1904; undatedContainer: Box/Folder D4/59 -
Description: Portland Railway Light & Power Company
Timecard; promotional investment publication: "Four Extra Pay Days Every Year: Over 7% Interest on Your Savings;" information and order form for PRLPC's "8 Per Cent Five-Year Gold Notes"
Dates: July 14, 1908; 1922; 1921Container: Box/Folder D4/60 -
Description: Portland Railway Light & Power Company
Notification of Burnside Bridge closure and re-routes of affected lines; information card for Five Year 8% Gold Notes; cash and transfer checks (8); student certification for school season; trolley guide; schedule card
Dates: 1913; 1921; undated; 1910-1911; after 1913; 1907Container: Box/Folder D4/60A -
Description: Portland Railway Light & Power Company
Employee tickets (15); book of free passage passes; promotional pamphlet: "Seeing Portland;" receipt for cash fare paid; vol. 1 no. 2 "Trolley News;" pamphlet: "Trolley Trips In and Around Portland"
Dates: 1927; 1918; 1909; undatedContainer: Box/Folder D4/60B -
Description: Portland Street Railway Company—one fare ticketDates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder D4/61
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Description: Portland Traction Company
Envelope with ticket and 2 receipts, handwritten information on ticket; Williams Ave. route and schedule changes; informational pamphlet; "West Side Routes;" souvenir pamphlet of Portland Heights; weekly pass
Dates: 1931; 1940; 1951; 1897; Dec. 4-10, 1938Container: Box/Folder D4/62 -
Description: Portland Traction Company
Student tickets (2); tickets (2); transfer receipt
Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder D4/62A -
Description: Portland Traction Company--Poster for "Citizen of the week" Frederick Boehme, Portland postman.
See also "Ships" series above, "Pearson, A.R." for another poster in this series.
Dates: 1958Container: Box/Folder Oversize 1 -
Description: The Pullman Company
Issues of Pullman Facts , nos. 1,2,6,7,10,11; ticket envelope; Pullman service menu; promotional booklet: "Go Pullman By Day…By Night;" trip pass
Dates: Sept. 30, 1946; undatedContainer: Box/Folder D4/63 -
Description: Rogue River Valley Railway Co.—straight bill of ladingDates: June 14, 1913Container: Box/Folder D4/64
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Description: Seattle and International Railway Co.—trip passDates: July 15, 1899Container: Box/Folder D4/65
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Description: Southern Pacific
Guides to Shasta Daylight trip w/ timetable and place descriptions (4); sample dinner select menu; ticket order envelope (empty); copy & original of tray and dinner service flyer; souvenir folder of the Shasta Route
Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder D5/66 -
Description: Southern Pacific
"The Shasta Route: In All of it’s Grandeur: A Scenic Guide Book;" assorted business cards for Southern Pacific Company (2); souvenir booklet: An Excursion to Tillamook, OR by Train: Scenes Along the Pacific Railway & Navigation Line
Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder D5/66A -
Description: Southern Pacific
Handbook of safety rules and regulations; San Francisco to Portland ticket w/ envelope; invitation to Golden Spike Celebration; advertisments: "Southern Pacific Adds New Priveleges to Lower Fares East" (2)
Dates: 1923; April 25, 1943; Sept. 14, 1929; 1932Container: Box/Folder D5/66B -
Description: Southern Pacific
Program for "Oregon First" Excursion to San Francisco; "Railroad Efficiency and Dismemberment" statement by Mr. J. Kruttsschmitt to Interstate Commerce Commission; All-Day Lunch Service Menu
Dates: March 12, 1912; 1922; 1926Container: Box/Folder D5/66C -
Description: Southern Pacific
Ticket, Oregon Lines, from Canby to Portland (2); Southern Pacific menu; Supreme Court of the United States ruling in the Case of the United States of America vs. Southern Pacific Co., et. al.
Dates: 1905; 1942; 1921Container: Box/Folder D5/66D -
Description: Southern Pacific
Union Pacific-Central Pacific-Southern Pacific opening statement by R.S. Lovett before the Interstate Commerce Commission; Southern Pacific menu; "The Case of Business Men and Farmers Against Dismemberment of Southern Pacific Lines"
Dates: 1922; 1946Container: Box/Folder D5/66E -
Description: Southern Pacific
Ticket from Woodburn to Portland; dinner menu from Ogden Route; employee's trip pass
Dates: 1905; Aug. 3, 1895; 1897Container: Box/Folder D5/66F -
Description: Southern Pacific--timetables, various routesDates: 1901-1970Container: Box/Folder D5/67
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Description: Southern Pacific Locomotive No. 4449-City of Portland
Commemorative postcards (4); No. 4449 album
Dates: 1984; undatedContainer: Box/Folder D5/68 -
Description: Southern Pacific Company—timetable, Portland DivisioinDates: 1916Container: Box/Folder D8/102
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Description: Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railroad—program for 75 year celebration; timetablesDates: 1983; 1919-1967Container: Box/Folder D5/69
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Description: Sumpter Valley Railroad
Time book and distribution of labor; promotional pamphlet: "All Aboard' Sumpter Valley Railroad Restorations Narrow Gauge Steam Train"
Dates: Sept. 1917; undatedContainer: Box/Folder D5/70 -
Description: Tacoma Eastern Railroad—timetable for Paradise Valley RouteDates: 1905Container: Box/Folder D5/71
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Description: T.P.A Pocket Guides—various volumesDates: March 1901-Sept. 1908Container: Box/Folder D5/72
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Description: T.P.A. Pocket Guides—various volumesDates: Nov. 1908-March 1921Container: Box/Folder D5/73
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Description: Union Pacific
Vacation haunts pamphlets: "The Columbia River Gorge From an Open Observation Car" (2); pamphlet: "New and Faster Union Pacific Bus and Rail Service To and From the East"
Dates: 1925 and 1927; 1929Container: Box/Folder D6/74 -
Description: Union Pacific
Collection of remnants from Boston westward: includes UP envelope, sleeping car coupons, transfer, ticket and travel suggestions pamphlet; business cards from Miss Clare Percefull (2)
Dates: 1947; undatedContainer: Box/Folder D6/74A -
Description: Union Pacific
Booklet: "Salient Features of the Union Pacific's side of the Central Pacific Controversy;" pamphlet: "Tomorrow's Train…Today"
Dates: Oct. 1922; undatedContainer: Box/Folder D6/74B -
Description: Union Pacific
Trip pass; dining car service menu; breakfast menu; advertising ink blotter; tickets (2)
Dates: Nov. 1885; 1903; Oct. 1916; undated; undatedContainer: Box/Folder D6/74C -
Description: Union Pacific
Fold out pamphlet: "Locomotives of Union Pacific Railroad;" booklet: "The Union Pacific Story;"
Dates: undated; March 1969Container: Box/Folder D6/74D -
Description: Union Pacific
Booklet: "Roster of Union Pacific Locomotives 1867-1964" revised edition; handbook: "The Portland Limited: Only Thru Train Between Chicago and Portland;" dinner menu "City of Portland"
Dates: May 1968; undated; April 8, 1937Container: Box/Folder D6/74E -
Description: Union Pacific
Promotional booklets: "The Streamliner City of Portland" (2); "The Streamliner" coach service menus (3);
Dates: undated; 1940Container: Box/Folder D6/74F -
Description: Union Pacific
Menus from "The Portland Rose" (6), including 4 from 1934; "Portland Rose" stationery; "Portland Rose" booklet titled "Train conveniences"; "The Portland Rose" contract bridge scoring table; promotional booklet: "The Portland Rose"; "Agreement between the Union Pacific Company...and the Northern Pacific Railroad Company and Oregon Railway and Navigation Company," 1883; booklet "Who owns the Union Pacific?", 1923; train orders and clearance forms, 1966; invitation to centennial of last spike ceremony, Amon Carter Museum, 1969 May 8.
Dates: 1883-1969Container: Box/Folder D6/74G -
Description: Union Pacific
Nelson's Pictorial Guide-Books: "The Union Pacific Railroad: A Trip Across the North American Continent From Omaha to Ogden" (2); view album of resorts along the UP Railroad; rules and instructions manual
Dates: circa 1871; circa 1884; undatedContainer: Box/Folder D6/75 -
Description: Union Pacific—timetablesDates: 1914-1946Container: Box/Folder D6/76
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Description: Union Pacific—timetablesDates: 1949-1970Container: Box/Folder D7/76A
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Description: United Railways Company—schedule of trainsDates: March 20, 1911Container: Box/Folder D7/77
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Description: Valley and Siletz Railroad Company
Timetable card; news release; "Local and Proportional Freight Tariff No. 11;" tariff index No. 41 and No. 42
Dates: Oct. 1927; March 2, 1978; Aug. 1956; 1963 and 1965Container: Box/Folder D7/78 -
Description: Vernonia, South Park, & Sunset Steam Railroad—promotional pamphlet: "All Aboard for 42 Mile Sunday Excursion Behind a Historic Steam Locomotive;" promotional pamphlet: "Sunday Steam Trips: Banks to Vernonia, Oregon"Dates: circa 1970; undatedContainer: Box/Folder D7/79
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Description: Walla Walla Railway Company—certificate for shares of the Capital Stock of the WWRC issued to J.M. McCawDates: 1905Container: Box/Folder D7/80
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Description: West Coast Railroad & Coos Bay Coal Co.—prospectus (2)Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder D8/99
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Description: Western Oregon Railroad Company—articles of incorporation and by-lawsDates: 1879Container: Box/Folder D7/81
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Description: Western Pacific--timetable; promotional pamphlet: "The Cariboo Country Special"Dates: Nov. 1939; 1960Container: Box/Folder D7/82
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Description: Western railway and logging railway directoryDates: 1907Container: Box/Folder D8/105
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Description: Willamette and Pacific Railroad—timetablesDates: 1993-1994Container: Box/Folder D8/106
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Description: Willamette Valley Southern Railway Company—timetable (photocopy)Dates: 1921Container: Box/Folder D8/107
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Description: Willamette Shore Railway—pamphlet promoting Jefferson Street branchDates: 1987Container: Box/Folder D7/83
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Description: Willamina & Grande Ronde Railroad Company—"Local Freight Tariff No. 1"Dates: Dec. 15, 1921Container: Box/Folder D7/84
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Description: Yaquina Bay and Northern Railway—general report of YBNRDates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder D7/85
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Description: Yaquina Bay & Willamette Valley Railroad
Articles of Incorporation; death certificate of T.E. Hogg; official records of the Union & Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion (regarding T.E. Hogg)
Dates: Oct. 1870; 1898; undatedContainer: Box/Folder D7/86 -
Description: Railroads, Miscellaneous
Editorial booklet: "The Rate Advance: Decisions and Eighteen Months After" reprinted from "Railway Age Gazette"; political handout: "Railroad Commissions of Two Kinds" F.W. Gaines; business card George F. Heusner, Passenger Agent
Dates: Aug. 1912; undatedContainer: Box/Folder D7/87 -
Description: Railroads, Miscellaneous
Souvenir brochure commemorating the Journey of the Oregon Pioneer Excursionists over the Hebert Lea Route (Mid West); advertisments for the Railroad Automatic Track Inspector Company, Chehalis, Wash. (2); articles of incorporation of the Alaska and Yukon River Railway and Navigation Company, 1889 (typescript copy).
Dates: Oct. 1883; 1889; undatedContainer: Box/Folder D7/87A -
Description: Railroads, Miscellaneous
Advertisement of Railway Express Agency 5-35; timecard for 3-1-41 day shift running; weekly timecard Car Shop (blank); advertisement for street car trip in Portland
Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder D7/87B -
Description: Railroads, Miscellaneous
Booklet: "Cheap Railway Transportation of Narrow Gauge Railroads, Their Success in Oregon and Washington Territory, Since 1876;" blueprint invitation to party celebrating placing Madras on the railroad
Dates: undated; Feb. 13, 1911Container: Box/Folder D7/87C -
Description: Railroads, Miscellaneous
Notice pertaining to prohibition infractions while on railroad; proposal to Whitney Co. for the construction of 2 railroads in Tillamook County
Dates: June 1917; 1919Container: Box/Folder D7/87D -
Description: Railroads, Miscellaneous
Business card of Richard A. Carlson, president, Pacific Northwest Chapter of National Railway Historical Society; flyer for National Railway Historical Society excursion to Goldendale, Washington, 1966; program: 1964 Annual Banquet of the Pacific Northwest Electric Railway Association
Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder D7/87E -
Description: Railroad Excursions, Miscellaneous
Oregon Electric Railway "Souvenir of Excursion over Portland-Salem Lines of Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway, The United Railways, & Oregon Electric Railway;" special excursion ticket, Sumpter Valley Railroad Resoration, Inc.
Dates: Oct. 23, 1955; undatedContainer: Box/Folder D7/88 -
Description: Railroad Excursions, Miscellaneous
Southern Pacific, "An Excursion to Tillamook, Oregon by Train: Scenes Along the Pacific Railway & Navigation Line;" Amtrak, "The Great Northwest Rail Excursion;" "1985 Deschutes River Rail Excursion"
Dates: undated; Oct. 8-9, 1983: 1985Container: Box/Folder D7/88A -
Description: Railroad Excursions, Miscellaneous
Union Pacific Expo '74 Director's Special: Salt Lake City, Utah to Seattle Washington (in own folders)
Dates: May 3-7, 1974Container: Box/Folder D7/88B -
Description: Union Pacific, "Points of Interest Along the Way," Omaha to Spokane, Portland and Salt Lake City (ring binder)Dates: May 27, 1979Container: Box/Folder D7/88C
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Description: Union Pacific, "Points of Interest Along the Way," Salt Lake City, Utah to Seattle, Washington (ring binder)Dates: July 4-5, 1980Container: Box/Folder D8/88D
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Description: Transportation Guides, Miscellaneous
West Coast Hotel & Railway Guide, vol. 1, no. 5; The Headlight, vol. 1, no. 5; The U.C.T. Transportation Guide\, vols. 1, 7, 13, and 23
Dates: July 1906; Dec. 1890; 1908, 1914, 1921 and 1930Container: Box/Folder D8/89 -
Description: Public Relations—promotional flyer: "Union Station Project Kickoff: Get on Board!"Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder D8/90
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Description: Railroads, Miscellaneous
Train Equipment—article: "Car Building: Advancing the State of the Art" from Railway Age; promotional pamphlet: "FMC: The Company We Keep;" booklet: "How FMC Freight Cars are Built Better;" booklet: "GRS Range Lanterns"
Dates: Nov. 8, 1982; undated; undated; undatedContainer: Box/Folder D8/91 -
Description: Railroads, miscellaneous
Letter from a railroad telegrapher to his wife, ca. 1923; Pacific Northwest Advisory Board, Association of American Railways, proceedings of the thirtieth annual meeting at Portland, March 22, 1935.
Dates: 1923; 1935Container: Box/Folder D8/104
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Series E: Miscellaneous transportation oversize, circa 1867-1900
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Description: Aviation
Pan American: emergency instructions; in-flight menus (3)
Dates: undated; undatedContainer: Box/Folder E1/1 -
Express, Stage and Bus
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Description: California & Oregon Coast Overland Mail Company—timetables (2)Dates: 1875 & 1877Container: Box/Folder E1/2
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Description: California & Oregon United States Mail Line
Blank way bills (3); way bills (3)
Dates: 1867; undatedContainer: Box/Folder E1/3 -
Description: Hepner-Canyon City Stage Line—way bills (3)Dates: 1899-1900Container: Box/Folder E1/4
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Description: Overland Mining & Transportation Co.—Articles of IncorporationDates: 1880Container: Box/Folder E1/5
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