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Transportation Collection, circa 1845-2012

Overview of the Collection

Title
Transportation Collection
Dates
circa 1845-2012 (bulk)
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
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

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.
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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.

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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

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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.

Acquisition Information

The materials were acquired from a variety of sources.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Series A: Ships, circa 1850-1988

    • Description: Active (steamship)—cabin laundry chit
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder A1/1
    • Description: Alaska Steamship Company—menus from the S.S. Alaska (6)
      Dates: Aug. 5-7, 1950
      Container: Box/Folder A1/2
    • 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: undated
      Container: Box/Folder A1/3
    • Description: Arper Transportation Co.

      Handbill advertising freight between San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda

      Dates: undated
      Container: 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; 1933
      Container: Box/Folder A1/5
    • Description: Belle (steamer)—cargo bill
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder A1/6
    • Description: Berlin (ship)—receipts for Bending Sails ship Berlin (4)
      Dates: March 20, 1911
      Container: Box/Folder A1/7
    • Description: Blackball Transport Inc.—ferry schedules between Port Angeles and Victoria (3) nos. 2, 7, & 46
      Dates: 1960; 1986-87
      Container: Box/Folder A1/8
    • Description: Blair Shipping Company

      Lumber charter party, S.S. Golden Gate from the North Pacific to Japan ports"

      Dates: 1923
      Container: Box/Folder A1/9
    • Description: Bonneville Navigation Co.

      handbills (2); ticket for Albany College River Day

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder A1/10
    • Description: Brady Hamilton Stevedore Company

      Booklet commemorating the history and growth of the organization

      Dates: undated
      Container: 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; undated
      Container: Box/Folder A1/12
    • 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 1972
      Container: Box/Folder A1/13A
    • Description: Cascade Locks (Or.)—Newspaper supplement on the opening of the locks from the Morning Oregonian
      Dates: 1896 Dec.
      Container: Box/Folder Oversize 2
    • Description: Chrysopolis —Handbills

      Handbills for a steamer operating between Sacramento and Benecia, California, mid 19th century.

      Dates: undated
      Container: 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 April
      Container: Box/Folder Oversize 1
    • Description: Coast Ferries Ltd.—Mill Bay-Brentwood Route ferry schedule
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder A1/14
    • Description: Columbia (steamship)—cargo receipts (3)
      Dates: 1852 & 1858
      Container: Box/Folder A1/15
    • 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, 1988
      Container: 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. 1920
      Container: 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. 1874
      Container: 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: 1943-1948
      Container: 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; undated
      Container: Box/Folder A1/19A
    • Description: Conquest (ship)—shipping receipt for goods shipped from New York to San Francisco
      Dates: 1857
      Container: Box/Folder A1/20
    • Description: U.S. Constitution (frigate)—duplicate official programs of the U.S. Frigate Constitution (2)
      Dates: 1933
      Container: Box/Folder A1/21
    • Description: Cortes (steamer)—receipt
      Dates: 1858
      Container: Box/Folder A1/22
    • Description: S.S. Cuba—Poster for passenger steamer service between Portland and San Francisco
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder Oversize 1
    • Description: Cunard Steamship Co.—passage from Gothenburg to Portland
      Dates: 1908
      Container: Box/Folder A1/23
    • Description: Enterprise (steamer)—receipt for freight on the steamer EnterpriseAlbany
      Dates: Jan. 7, 1864
      Container: Box/Folder A1/24
    • 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: undated
      Container: Box/Folder A1/25
    • Description: Express (steamer)—freight lists between Portland & and Oregon City (2)
      Dates: March 1862; Sept.-Dec. 1859
      Container: Box/Folder A1/26
    • Description: Evening Star—stock certificate for 1 share in the missionary vessel
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder A1/27
    • 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; undated
      Container: Box/Folder A1/28
    • Description: Garibaldi —ticket from Portland to Hong Kong
      Dates: 1870
      Container: Box/Folder A1/29
    • Description: George S. Wright (S.S.)—receipt
      Dates: 1870
      Container: Box/Folder A1/30
    • Description: George S. Wright —Agreements between masters and crew (4), Astoria Custom House
      Dates: 1869
      Container: Box/Folder Oversize 1
    • Description: Golden River—receipt for shipment bound for San Francisco from Baltimore
      Dates: 1854
      Container: Box/Folder A1/31
    • 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; undated
      Container: Box/Folder A1/32
    • Description: Great Republic--timetable card
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder A1/33
    • Description: Harkins Transportation Co.

      Information for tourists; advertisment for the Steamer Georgiana; brochure: "Down the Columbia;" handbill for the new passenger steamer Georgiana

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder A2/34
    • Description: Henderson (steamer)—description of the steamer
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder A2/35
    • Description: Idaho (steamship)—waybills (3)
      Dates: 1871, 1873 & 1876
      Container: Box/Folder A2/36
    • Description: Imperial—receipt of shipment from New York to San Francisco
      Dates: 1869
      Container: Box/Folder A2/37
    • Description: J.L. Stephens (steamship)—receipts (2)
      Dates: Dec. 1858 & Oct. 1866
      Container: Box/Folder A2/38
    • 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 1914
      Container: 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; 1982
      Container: Box/Folder A2/41
    • Description: LaConner Trading and Transportation Co.

      Special note to passengers—Rules and Regulations while on board

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder A2/42
    • Description: Lewis & Lake Rivers Transportation Co.—blank stock certificate
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder A2/43
    • Description: Levi G. Burgess (ship)—receipt for $10 from Crowley Launch & Tugboat Co.
      Dates: Dec. 21, 1910
      Container: Box/Folder A2/44
    • Description: Manzanillo (steamboat)

      Ticket stubs running between Mission Landing, Newberg, Champoeg, New Era and Oregon City and Portland (3)

      Dates: 1892
      Container: Box/Folder A2/45
    • Description: Maryhill Ferry Co.—Illustrated brief histories of Maryhill Stonehenge and Museuem of Fine Arts (2)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder A2/46
    • 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, 1957
      Container: 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. 1908
      Container: 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; undated
      Container: 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, 1897
      Container: 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; 1931
      Container: 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, 1930
      Container: 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; 1928
      Container: 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; undated
      Container: 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; undated
      Container: 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: undated
      Container: 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; 1976
      Container: Box/Folder A2/47J
    • Description: Alfred McCully--engineer certificates (12)
      Dates: 1873-1885
      Container: Box/Folder A2/48
    • 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. 13
      Container: Box/Folder Oversize 1
    • Description: Modeste (ship)--announcement of the evening's entertainment
      Dates: Jan. 5, 1867
      Container: Box/Folder A2/49
    • Description: Nootka Sound Service Ltd.--passenger schedule w/ map
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder A2/50
    • 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; undated
      Container: 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; undated
      Container: Box/Folder A2/51A
    • Description: North Pacific Transportation Co.--bill of lading (blank)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder A2/52
    • Description: Olympia (ship)—booklet: "The Bounding Bellow"
      Dates: June 1898
      Container: Box/Folder A2/53
    • 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; 1906
      Container: Box/Folder A2/54
    • Description: Oregon (steamship)

      Waybills (3); market status report on merchandise shipped on the Oregon

      Dates: 1878-79; Aug. 30, 1850
      Container: Box/Folder A2/55
    • Description: Oregon and China Packet Line--receipt for the Oregon and China Packet Line (blank)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder A2/56
    • Description: Oregon State Highway Commission--Astoria-Megler ferry schedules
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder A2/57
    • 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: 1874-1879
      Container: 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; 1877
      Container: 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, 1877
      Container: 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, 1901
      Container: 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; 1877
      Container: Box/Folder A2/61
    • Description: Pacific Motorboat Handbook--1930 issue
      Dates: 1930
      Container: Box/Folder A2/62
    • 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, 1932
      Container: 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, 1939
      Container: Box/Folder A2/64
    • Description: Panama (ship)—Coasting Manifest from the Columbia River bound for San Francisco via Puget Sound
      Dates: April 5, 1860
      Container: Box/Folder A2/65
    • 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 1941
      Container: 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, 1869
      Container: Box/Folder A2/66
    • Description: The People's Independent Line—steamer City of Eugene—card for passage between Boones Ferry and Eugene
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder A2/67
    • 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 1923
      Container: Box/Folder A2/68
    • Description: Portland (steamer)—receipt for freight, Oregon City
      Dates: Jan. 30, 1855
      Container: Box/Folder A2/69
    • Description: Portland Ferry--ferry tickets (4)

      Ferry tickets (4); advertising blotter, undated (but prior to 1859)

      Dates: 1869; undated
      Container: Box/Folder A2/70
    • Description: Portland Steamship Co.—stock certificate
      Dates: 1914
      Container: Box/Folder A2/71
    • Description: Portland Tug Boat Co.—list of stockholders and their shares
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder A2/72
    • 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 1944
      Container: Box/Folder A2/73
    • Description: Puget Sound Steam Navigation Co.—prospectus of the PSSN, Olympia
      Dates: June 12, 1867
      Container: Box/Folder A2/74
    • Description: S.S. Rose City—Poster for service on U.S. west coast
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder Oversize 1
    • 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, 1985
      Container: 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: 1985-1986
      Container: 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; 1986
      Container: Box/Folder A3/75B
    • Description: Salem Navigation Co.--letterhead stationery (blank)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder A3/76
    • 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. 1914
      Container: Box/Folder A3/77
    • Description: Ship Chandlers--advertisement card for Foard & Stokes Co., Astoria
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder A3/78
    • Description: Shipwrights

      Card for Robert K. Loller, Shipwright, Portland; handbill for Roberts & Co., Salvage & Wrecking Co.

      Dates: undated; 1904
      Container: 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, 1881
      Container: Box/Folder A3/80
    • Description: Snake River Transportation Co.--stock certificate
      Dates: 1891
      Container: Box/Folder A3/81
    • Description: Society Expeditions Cruises--Project Unusual Alaska and the Aleutian Islands aboard the Aleutians
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder A3/82
    • 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; undated
      Container: 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; 1904
      Container: Box/Folder A3/84
    • Description: Stark Street Ferry--coupon tickets (7)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder A3/85
    • Description: Starr King--certificate of General Average, State of California
      Dates: 1861
      Container: Box/Folder A3/86
    • 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: 1930
      Container: Box/Folder A3/87
    • Description: Straits Steamship Co.—complimentary passes (3)
      Dates: 1906-1907
      Container: Box/Folder A3/88
    • 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: 1883-1959
      Container: Box/Folder A3/89
    • Description: Tarquina—form announcing receipt of goods in San Francisco on board the brig Tarquinabound for Portland
      Dates: Aug. 4, 1850
      Container: Box/Folder A3/90
    • Description: Telegraph (steamer)

      Week-day time cards for Portland (2); announcement of the departure of the Great Republic

      Dates: 1906; July 1878
      Container: Box/Folder A3/91
    • Description: Tenino (steamer) —notarized statement of loyalty
      Dates: Nov. 1, 1866
      Container: Box/Folder A3/92
    • 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: undated
      Container: 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; undated
      Container: Box/Folder A3/93A
    • Description: Tualatin River Navigation & Manufacturing Co.—stock certificate
      Dates: 1871
      Container: Box/Folder A3/94
    • Description: Umatilla (steamer)--handwritten history
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder A3/95
    • Description: Undine (steamer)—bills and receipts for the steamer
      Dates: May 25, 1892-Nov. 1, 1896
      Container: Box/Folder A3/96
    • Description: Unio (steamer)—receipt for freight of wheat on the steamer
      Dates: Feb. 7, 1862
      Container: Box/Folder A3/97
    • Description: Union Pacific—summer schedule for the North Beach route from Astoria, Or., to Megler, Wash.
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box/Folder A3/98
    • Description: Union Transportation Co.—balance sheet listing income, expenses and resources
      Dates: March 31, 1861
      Container: Box/Folder A3/99
    • 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 1906
      Container: 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 1982
      Container: 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: undated
      Container: Box/Folder A3/102
    • Description: Washington State Ferries

      Promotional pamphlet: "Puget Sound Cruises, Parties & Other Events;" ferry schedules for various routes (9)

      Dates: undated; 1957-1983
      Container: 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: undated
      Container: Box/Folder A3/103
    • Description: Willamette Steamboat Co.--receipt
      Dates: June 30, 1868
      Container: Box/Folder A3/104
    • 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: 1858-1859
      Container: Box/Folder Oversize 1
    • Description: Winema (steamboat)—Cloth broadside for "Business Men's Excursion," Klamath Falls to Wood River Country
      Dates: 1905 July 23
      Container: Box/Folder Oversize 1
    • Description: Yakima (steamer)--list of crew
      Dates: May 16, 1865
      Container: Box/Folder A3/105
    • Description: Zephyr (steamer)—complimentary pass
      Dates: 1882
      Container: Box/Folder A3/106
    • 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; 1884
      Container: 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, 1892
      Container: 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; 1924
      Container: 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; 1947
      Container: 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; undated
      Container: 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: 1917
      Container: 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; 1965
      Container: 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: 1881
      Container: Box/Folder A4/109
    • Description: Columbia Pacific Shipping Company—bill of lading for steamer Oakridge from Portland to Hong Kong
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder A4/110
    • 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, 1915
      Container: Box/Folder A4/111
    • Description: The Dalles, Portland & Astoria Navigation Co.—set of construction specifications for steamer Bailey Gatzert; flyer
      Dates: undated; 1903
      Container: Box/Folder A4/111A
    • 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; 1883
      Container: Box/Folder A4/112
    • Description: Grant Smith-Porter Ship Co.—booklets: "Going Home"
      Dates: July 1918; Feb. 1919
      Container: Box/Folder A4/113
    • Description: Hough—construction specifications index for the woooden hull of the steamship
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder A4/114
    • Description: Industry (bark)

      Cargo manifest from San Francisco to Astoria; cargo manifest from San Francisco to Portland

      Dates: 1860; 1861
      Container: 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 1859
      Container: 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. 1874
      Container: Box/Folder A4/117
    • Description: Pacific (steamship)—coasting manifest S.S. Pacific(7); receipt
      Dates: 1860-61; Dec. 16, 1858
      Container: Box/Folder A4/118
    • Description: Samuel Merritt (bark)—coasting manifests between San Francisco and Portland (2)
      Dates: April 1861; Nov. 1861
      Container: Box/Folder A4/119
    • Description: Sylvia de Grasse —historical description and report of shipwreck
      Dates: Dec. 15, 1857
      Container: Box/Folder A4/120
    • 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; 1947
      Container: 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 & 1929-34
      Container: Box/Folder A4/122
    • Description: Wenatchee (steamer)—edger
      Dates: March-Nov. 1868
      Container: Box/Folder A4/123
    • Description: Whitby Ships

      Copy of the Master Rolls of Whitby Ships in which James Cook sailed 1747-55, history

      Dates: undated
      Container: 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; undated
      Container: 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; undated
      Container: 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; 1945
      Container: 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; undated
      Container: 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; 1860
      Container: 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: 1858-1859
      Container: 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; 1900-1909
      Container: 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; undated
      Container: 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; 1915
      Container: 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; 1914
      Container: Box/Folder A4/130
    • Description: Wayne F. Aldrich, "History of steamships in Oregon and Washington," typescript (carbon)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder A5/1
    • Description: The marine digest / Pacific northwest cross-indexed / 1953 directory and world wide shipping guide.
      Dates: 1953
      Container: Box/Folder A5/2
    • Description: Wayne F. Aldrich--documents and certificates from the U.S. Coast Guard
      Dates: 1950-1960
      Container: Box/Folder A5/3
    • Description: Article from Engineering News titled "The proposed boat railway around the The Dalles rapids of the Columbia River." Includes diagrams.
      Dates: Sept. 12, 1891
      Container: Box/Folder A5/4
    • 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; 1942
      Container: Box/Folder A5/5
    • 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: 1941-1945
      Container: Box/Folder A5/6
    • Description: Kaiser Company—Picture of tanker, with related materials
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box/Folder Oversize 1
    • Description: General Steamship Corporation, Ltd., "Pacific coast shipping handbook" (2)
      Dates: 1935; 1938
      Container: Box/Folder A5/7
    • Description: Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation: materials relating to ship launchings

      Includes programs, reports, and ephemera, ca. 1941-1944; Record breakers magazine, ca. 1944.

      Dates: ca. 1941-1944
      Container: Box/Folder A5/8
    • Description: Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation—clippings (photocopy) relating to the launching of the Ephraim Baughman
      Dates: 1943
      Container: Box/Folder A5/9
    • 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: 1941-1944
      Container: Box/Folder A5/10
  • Series B: Aviation, 1919-1976

    • Description: Air France—breakfast menus for Los Angeles to Paris direct flight (2)
      Dates: 1971
      Container: Box/Folder B1/1
    • Description: American Airlines—baggage stickers (2)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder B1/2
    • Description: American Airlines—Menus and safety brochure for trans-Atlantic service
      Dates: circa 1972
      Container: Box/Folder Oversize 3
    • Description: Braniff International—timetable
      Dates: 1972
      Container: Box/Folder B1/3
    • Description: Cascade Airways—timetable
      Dates: 1975
      Container: Box/Folder B1/4
    • Description: Continental Airlines

      Entertainment pamphlet: "Golden Marquee Theatre;" quick reference schedule; route map packet

      Dates: undated; 1967; 1972
      Container: Box/Folder B1/6
    • Description: Earl Aircraft Corporation—stock certificate for Newt Langerman
      Dates: May 21, 1919
      Container: Box/Folder B1/7
    • Description: Eastern Air Lines—baggage sticker
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder B1/8
    • Description: Gorst Air Transport—promotional pamphlet w/ timetable
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder B1/9
    • Description: Harbor Airlines—quick reference schedule
      Dates: 1975
      Container: Box/Folder B1/10
    • Description: Hughes Airwest—travel planner; timetables (6)
      Dates: 1973; 1970-1976
      Container: Box/Folder B1/11
    • Description: Intermountain West—timetable
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder B1/12
    • Description: Northwest Airlines—baggage stickers (2); timetables (9)
      Dates: undated; 1934-1969
      Container: Box/Folder B1/13
    • Description: Pacific Air Lines—timetable
      Dates: 1967
      Container: Box/Folder B1/14
    • Description: Sun Valley Air—summer schedule
      Dates: 1970
      Container: Box/Folder B1/15
    • Description: Trans World Airlines—timetable
      Dates: 1967
      Container: Box/Folder B1/16
    • 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; 1931-1979
      Container: Box/Folder B1/17
    • Description: Varney Air Lines—informational pamphlet w/ timetable and maps
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder B1/18
    • 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; 1966
      Container: Box/Folder B1/19
    • Description: Western Air Lines—timetables (3)
      Dates: 1941; 1963; 1975
      Container: Box/Folder B1/20
    • 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; undated
      Container: 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; 1927
      Container: 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: undated
      Container: 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: undated
      Container: Box/Folder B1/22A
    • Description: Miscellaneous

      Promotional publication: Aero-Quad; prefabricated plane hangers

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder B1/22B
  • Series C: Automobiles, bicycles, express, stages, buses, roads, highways, streetcars, and wagons, 1854-2012

  • Series D: Railroads, circa 1845-2000

    • Description: Albina Transportation Co.—fare coupons (4)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder D1/1
    • Description: Amtrak--Tours "Pacific Northwest"
      Dates: 1998
      Container: Box/Folder D1/2
    • Description: Amtrak--promotional pamphlet
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder D1/2A
    • Description: Amtrak—timetables
      Dates: 1971-1991
      Container: Box/Folder D2/2B
    • Description: Association of American Railroads: lubrication manual and shop maintenance leaflet
      Dates: 1950
      Container: Box/Folder D1/3
    • Description: Astoria & Columbia River Railroad Co.—promotional booklet for departures from Portland to the sea; pass for 1909
      Dates: undated; 1909
      Container: Box/Folder D1/4
    • Description: Astoria and South Coast Railway Co.—specifications for construction of railroad
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder D1/5
    • Description: Astoria, North Shore & Willapa Harbor Railroad—application to purchase 10 shares
      Dates: 1924
      Container: Box/Folder D1/6
    • 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; 1945
      Container: Box/Folder D1/7
    • Description: Burlington Northern—timetables
      Dates: 1970
      Container: Box/Folder D1/8
    • Description: California Western Railroad—promotional pamphlets
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder D1/9
    • Description: Canadian Pacific Railroad

      Article with map of proposed line construction at Vancouver; souvenir menus for The Mountaineer; Canadian Engineer's permanent pass

      Dates: 1912-1919
      Container: Box/Folder D1/10
    • Description: Cascades Railroad Company—blank stock certificates (2)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder D1/11
    • Description: Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad—Time table and safety regulations (photocopy)
      Dates: April 2, 2000
      Container: Box/Folder D8/108
    • 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; 1920
      Container: 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 1922
      Container: 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; 1969
      Container: D1/12B
    • Description: Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy Railroad Co.—timetable, Burlington route
      Dates: April 1967
      Container: D1/13
    • Description: City and Suburban Railway Co.

      Transfers (6); fares for observation car (3); street-car fares (2); fare tickets (5)

      Dates: undated
      Container: D1/14
    • Description: Clackamas Southern Railway Co.—booklet: Oregon City Press promoting railroad in Clackamas County
      Dates: 1911
      Container: D1/15
    • Description: Columbia and Nehalem River Railroad—description of railroad, map and inspection report
      Dates: Sept. 1918
      Container: D8/92
    • Description: Columbia and Puget Sound Railroad Co.—articles of incorporation and by-laws
      Dates: 1880
      Container: D1/16
    • Description: Corvallis & Eastern Railroad Co.

      Receipt for reduced priced passenger ticket to the Pioneer Reunion; round trip pass bewteen Detroit and Portland

      Dates: 1910; 1899
      Container: D1/17
    • Description: Dayton & Sheridan Narrow Gauge Railroad—history of the road
      Dates: 1884
      Container: D1/18
    • Description: Dayton, Sheridan & Grande Ronde Railroad Co.—list of contributors to secure a railroad up the South Yamhill (12 pages)
      Dates: 1879
      Container: D8/93
    • 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: 1909
      Container: 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: undated
      Container: 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; 1929
      Container: 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. 1926
      Container: 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; 1912
      Container: D2/20C
    • Description: Great Northern Railroad—timetables
      Dates: 1898-1969
      Container: D2/21
    • Description: Idaho & Washington Northern Railroad—timetable No. 15
      Dates: Oct. 6, 1912
      Container: D2/22
    • Description: Lake Whatcom Railway—promotional brochure and passenger schedule for steam train excursion
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder D2/23
    • Description: Lima Shay Locomotives—catalogues of locomotives (2)
      Dates: 1919; 1925
      Container: Box/Folder D2/24
    • Description: Metropolitan Railway Co.—rulebook
      Dates: 1889
      Container: Box/Folder D2/25
    • Description: The Milwaukee Road—brochure of recipes from George Rector, Director of Cuisine; timetable
      Dates: April 1931; 1939
      Container: Box/Folder D2/26
    • 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: undated
      Container: 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; 1913
      Container: 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: undated
      Container: 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: undated
      Container: 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: undated
      Container: 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; 1966
      Container: 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; 1910
      Container: Box/Folder D2/30D
    • Description: Northern Pacific Railway Co.—timetables
      Dates: 1909-1969
      Container: Box/Folder D2/31
    • Description: Northwest Transportation Co.—brochure on class and commodity rates between Portland and The Dalles
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder D3/32
    • Description: Northwest United Development Railway Co.—"menu" given to members of Portland's Transportation Family
      Dates: Dec. 16, 1911
      Container: Box/Folder D3/33
    • 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: undated
      Container: 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: undated
      Container: 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: undated
      Container: 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; 1871
      Container: 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: 1872-1884
      Container: 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; 1959
      Container: 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; undated
      Container: 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; undated
      Container: Box/Folder D8/94A
    • Description: Oregon & California Transportation Co.—stock certificate
      Dates: 1908
      Container: Box/Folder D3/35
    • Description: Oregon & Transcontinental Co.—stock certificate
      Dates: 1887
      Container: Box/Folder D3/36
    • Description: Oregon Branch Pacific Railroad—stock certificates (4)
      Dates: 1868; 1871; undated
      Container: Box/Folder D3/37
    • Description: Oregon Branch Pacific Railroad Co.—blank stock certificate
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder D8/95
    • Description: Oregon Central Railroad

      Articles of incorporation and by-laws; blank series A bond certificate

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder D3/38
    • Description: Oregon, California & Eastern Railway Co.—timetable No. 5
      Dates: 1929
      Container: Box/Folder D3/39
    • 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: undated
      Container: Box/Folder D3/40
    • Description: Oregon Electric Railway Co.

      Acknowledgements of fare paid on the Certificate Plan (3); yearly pass

      Dates: 1910; 1933
      Container: Box/Folder D3/40A
    • Description: Oregon Electric Railway Co.—time tables (photocopy) and related information.
      Dates: 1908-1909
      Container: Box/Folder D8/100
    • Description: Oregon Pacific & Eastern Railway Co.

      Timecard; postcard of locomotive No. 19

      Dates: 1926
      Container: 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: undated
      Container: 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: 1889-1906
      Container: 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: undated
      Container: Box/Folder D3/43B
    • Description: Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co.

      Blueprint; legal document

      Dates: undated; June 21, 1901
      Container: Box/Folder D8/96
    • Description: Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co.

      Commodity rates; colonist rate brochure to Columbia County

      Dates: 1908; 1909
      Container: 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: 1879-1882
      Container: 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; 1885
      Container: 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; 1896
      Container: 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; 1881
      Container: 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; 1880-1882
      Container: 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; 1906
      Container: 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; 1882
      Container: Box/Folder D8/97
    • Description: Oregon Railway and Navigation Company—Schedule No. 29
      Dates: 1886
      Container: Box/Folder D8/101
    • Description: Oregonian Railway Co.

      Handwritten lease; lease agreement

      Dates: 1881
      Container: 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; 1897-1898
      Container: Box/Folder D4/47
    • Description: Oregon Short Line Railroad Co.

      Ticket for the Railroad Department YMCA, Pocatello, Idaho; notice of rate increase

      Dates: 1904; 1885
      Container: 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; 1916-1917
      Container: 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; 1913
      Container: Box/Folder D4/48A
    • Description: Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Co.—timetables
      Dates: 1895-1919
      Container: Box/Folder D4/48B
    • 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; undated
      Container: Box/Folder D4/49
    • Description: P.R.L. & P. Co., traffic study chart, Portland, Williams Avenue line
      Dates: April 16, 1919
      Container: Box/Folder D8/103
    • Description: Pacific Northwest Electric Railway Association
      Dates: 1964-1966
      Container: Box/Folder D8/109
    • Description: Pacific Northwest Public Service Company—speeder schedule for Oak Grove Project Railway
      Dates: 1930
      Container: Box/Folder D4/50
    • 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; 1883
      Container: 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; 1858
      Container: 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; 1869
      Container: 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; 1870
      Container: 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: 1992
      Container: Box/Folder D4/52
    • Description: Portland & West Coast Railroad & Navigation Co.—excerpt from Oregon Statesman
      Dates: 1911
      Container: Box/Folder D4/53
    • Description: Portland Cable Railway Co.

      Trustees certificate for 126 shares

      Dates: 1892
      Container: 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; 1905
      Container: 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: 1873
      Container: Box/Folder D4/56
    • Description: Portland, East Portland and Albina Transportation Co.—ticket for one fare
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder D4/57
    • 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; 1927
      Container: 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; undated
      Container: 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; 1921
      Container: 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; 1907
      Container: 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; undated
      Container: Box/Folder D4/60B
    • Description: Portland Street Railway Company—one fare ticket
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder D4/61
    • 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, 1938
      Container: Box/Folder D4/62
    • Description: Portland Traction Company

      Student tickets (2); tickets (2); transfer receipt

      Dates: undated
      Container: 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: 1958
      Container: 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; undated
      Container: Box/Folder D4/63
    • Description: Rogue River Valley Railway Co.—straight bill of lading
      Dates: June 14, 1913
      Container: Box/Folder D4/64
    • Description: Seattle and International Railway Co.—trip pass
      Dates: July 15, 1899
      Container: Box/Folder D4/65
    • 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: undated
      Container: 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: undated
      Container: 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; 1932
      Container: 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; 1926
      Container: 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; 1921
      Container: 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; 1946
      Container: 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; 1897
      Container: Box/Folder D5/66F
    • Description: Southern Pacific--timetables, various routes
      Dates: 1901-1970
      Container: Box/Folder D5/67
    • Description: Southern Pacific Locomotive No. 4449-City of Portland

      Commemorative postcards (4); No. 4449 album

      Dates: 1984; undated
      Container: Box/Folder D5/68
    • Description: Southern Pacific Company—timetable, Portland Divisioin
      Dates: 1916
      Container: Box/Folder D8/102
    • Description: Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railroad—program for 75 year celebration; timetables
      Dates: 1983; 1919-1967
      Container: Box/Folder D5/69
    • 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; undated
      Container: Box/Folder D5/70
    • Description: Tacoma Eastern Railroad—timetable for Paradise Valley Route
      Dates: 1905
      Container: Box/Folder D5/71
    • Description: T.P.A Pocket Guides—various volumes
      Dates: March 1901-Sept. 1908
      Container: Box/Folder D5/72
    • Description: T.P.A. Pocket Guides—various volumes
      Dates: Nov. 1908-March 1921
      Container: Box/Folder D5/73
    • 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; 1929
      Container: 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; undated
      Container: 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; undated
      Container: 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; undated
      Container: Box/Folder D6/74C
    • Description: Union Pacific

      Fold out pamphlet: "Locomotives of Union Pacific Railroad;" booklet: "The Union Pacific Story;"

      Dates: undated; March 1969
      Container: 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, 1937
      Container: Box/Folder D6/74E
    • Description: Union Pacific

      Promotional booklets: "The Streamliner City of Portland" (2); "The Streamliner" coach service menus (3);

      Dates: undated; 1940
      Container: 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: 1883-1969
      Container: 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; undated
      Container: Box/Folder D6/75
    • Description: Union Pacific—timetables
      Dates: 1914-1946
      Container: Box/Folder D6/76
    • Description: Union Pacific—timetables
      Dates: 1949-1970
      Container: Box/Folder D7/76A
    • Description: United Railways Company—schedule of trains
      Dates: March 20, 1911
      Container: Box/Folder D7/77
    • 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 1965
      Container: 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; undated
      Container: Box/Folder D7/79
    • Description: Walla Walla Railway Company—certificate for shares of the Capital Stock of the WWRC issued to J.M. McCaw
      Dates: 1905
      Container: Box/Folder D7/80
    • Description: West Coast Railroad & Coos Bay Coal Co.—prospectus (2)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder D8/99
    • Description: Western Oregon Railroad Company—articles of incorporation and by-laws
      Dates: 1879
      Container: Box/Folder D7/81
    • Description: Western Pacific--timetable; promotional pamphlet: "The Cariboo Country Special"
      Dates: Nov. 1939; 1960
      Container: Box/Folder D7/82
    • Description: Western railway and logging railway directory
      Dates: 1907
      Container: Box/Folder D8/105
    • Description: Willamette and Pacific Railroad—timetables
      Dates: 1993-1994
      Container: Box/Folder D8/106
    • Description: Willamette Valley Southern Railway Company—timetable (photocopy)
      Dates: 1921
      Container: Box/Folder D8/107
    • Description: Willamette Shore Railway—pamphlet promoting Jefferson Street branch
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder D7/83
    • Description: Willamina & Grande Ronde Railroad Company—"Local Freight Tariff No. 1"
      Dates: Dec. 15, 1921
      Container: Box/Folder D7/84
    • Description: Yaquina Bay and Northern Railway—general report of YBNR
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder D7/85
    • 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; undated
      Container: 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; undated
      Container: 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; undated
      Container: 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: undated
      Container: 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, 1911
      Container: 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; 1919
      Container: 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: undated
      Container: 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; undated
      Container: 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: 1985
      Container: 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, 1974
      Container: 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, 1979
      Container: Box/Folder D7/88C
    • Description: Union Pacific, "Points of Interest Along the Way," Salt Lake City, Utah to Seattle, Washington (ring binder)
      Dates: July 4-5, 1980
      Container: Box/Folder D8/88D
    • 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 1930
      Container: Box/Folder D8/89
    • Description: Public Relations—promotional flyer: "Union Station Project Kickoff: Get on Board!"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder D8/90
    • 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; undated
      Container: 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; 1935
      Container: Box/Folder D8/104
  • Series E: Miscellaneous transportation oversize, circa 1867-1900

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