Fred Meyer collection 1922-2010

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Fred Meyer collection 1922-2010

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Collection of photographs, advertisements, internal memos, employee newsletters and scrapbooks from Fred Meyer, Inc., headquartered in Portland, Oregon with stores throughout the Western United States.

37 cubic feet; 35 document boxes, 27 flat boxes.

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Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6364675

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Fred Meyer, Inc.

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Fred G. Meyer was born Frederick Grubmeyer in 1886 in Brooklyn, New York. He moved West in the 1900s starting in Alaska and eventually making his way to Portland, Oregon. He married Eva Chatfield Chiles who would become his business partner and the inspiration behind Eve's Restaurants which were coffee shops attached to many Fred Meyer stores. Fred G. Meyer died in 1978 at the age of 92. His will established a charitable trust to create a philanthropic organization now known as the Meyer Memoria...

Meyer, Fred G., 1886-1978.

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