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            <titleproper encodinganalog="title">Guide to the M. Seller &amp; Company records <date encodinganalog="date" calendar="gregorian" certainty="approximate" era="ce" normal="1864/1910" type="inclusive">1864-1910</date>
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            <publisher encodinganalog="publisher">Oregon Historical Society Research Library</publisher>
            <date encodinganalog="date" calendar="gregorian" era="ce" normal="2012">2012</date>
            <address>
               <addressline>1200 SW Park Ave.</addressline>
               <addressline>Portland, OR 97205</addressline>
               <addressline>libreference@ohs.org</addressline>
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         <creation>This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on <date>2021-03-30</date>.</creation>
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               <addressline>1200 SW Park Ave.</addressline>
               <addressline>Portland, OR 97205</addressline>
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            <extent encodinganalog="300$a">0.25 cubic feet</extent>
            <extent encodinganalog="300$a">6 folders in shared box</extent>
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         <abstract encodinganalog="5203_">Collection includes records of M. Seller &amp; Company, a crockery and glassware business that opened in Portland, Oregon, in 1859. Records include business correspondence, 1875-1904; legal papers, 1900-1905; financial records, 1864-1900; inventory book, 1910; advertisements; samples of correspondence and other forms; and ephemera.</abstract>
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         <p>Collection is open for research.</p>  
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         <p>Per note in the collection: M. Seller &amp; Company began in the crockery and glassware business in Portland, Oregon, in 1859, and later opened houses in Seattle and Spokane. Its combined trade was the largest west of the Missouri River.</p>  
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         <p>M. Seller &amp; Company records, Mss 1297, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.</p>  
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         <p>Collection consists of records of the crockery and glassware business M. Seller &amp; Company. Records include business correspondence, 1875-1904; legal papers, including a lawsuit, 1900-1905; financial documents, 1864-1900; inventory book, 1 volume, 1910; advertisements; samples of correspondence and other forms; and printed ephemera.</p>  
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         <p>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.</p>  
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            <corpname rules="rda" source="local" encodinganalog="610">M. Seller &amp; Company (Portland, Or.)</corpname>
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            <subject source="lcsh" encodinganalog="650">Businesses--Northwest, Pacific</subject>
            <subject source="lcsh" encodinganalog="650">Retail trade--Northwest, Pacific</subject>
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