ORU_Bx050.xml Guide to the Oregon Stage Coach Company Records 1866-1867 Oregon Stage Coach Company records Tanya Parlet. Funding for production of this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives 2013
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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2020-12-22. Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition. University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives
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Oregon Stage Coach Company records Oregon Stage Company Bx 050 1 linear feet 2 containers 2 manuscript boxes 1866-1867 The Oregon Stage Coach Company, owned by Henry W. Corbett, ran a major route between California and Oregon during the mid 1800s. The collection (1866-1867) includes bills, receipts, and waybills. English . 1 2

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 Corbett, Henry W. (Henry Winslow), 1827-1903 California--History--19th century Oregon--History--19th century Business enterprises--Oregon--Portland Stagecoach lines--Oregon Stagecoach lines--California Oregon Receipts (financial records) Itineraries Waybills

The Oregon Stage Coach Company, owned by Henry W. Corbett, ran a major stagecoach route between California and Oregon in the mid 1800s.

Henry Corbett, of Massachusetts, came to live in Portland in 1851. He became a co-publisher of the Oregonian newspaper, and in 1867 he served as a US senator.

In 1866, Corbett began a stagecoach company that ran between Sacramento and Portland. "What had previously been called the California and Oregon Stage Line was [thereafter] named the Oregon Stage [Coach] Company. Although changes were subsequently made in organization, the Oregon Stage Company continued to control the stagecoach business between California and Oregon until these two states were linked by rail in 1887."

[Source: Winther, Oscar Osborn. The Old Oregon Country: A History of Frontier Trade, Transportation and Travel. Bloomington: Indiana University, 1950. pp 256-257.]

The collection (1866-1867) includes bills, receipts, and waybills from routes between California and Oregon.

The waybills contain itinerary information including names of coach stops, arrival and departure times, and also names of passengers and ticket prices.

Waybills are arranged loose in the boxes, roughly by date.

Receipts are grouped together.

Guide to the Oregon Stage Coach Company Records

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