Meyer Family film collection 1930-1952

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Meyer Family film collection 1930-1952

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Collection of home movies filmed primarily by Eva C. Meyer. The films were donated by Mary Jane Carter, Eva Meyer's niece. Films depict recreation, gardens, people and celebrations in and around Portland, Oregon. The collection also includes films of trips around the United States and abroad.

24 film reels

eng,

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6371013

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Meyer, Fred G., 1886-1978.

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Wright, Sophie

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Mudie, Peter.

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Hodl, Cathy.

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Chiles, Earle A.

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Fisher, Jack

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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...

Fisher, Vera

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Carter, Mary Jane

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Meyer, Eva C., 1888-1960

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Eva C. Meyer was born in 1888 in Michigan and moved to Portland, Oregon in 1911. She married Fred G. Meyer in 1919 and they were married for 41 years until her death in 1960. She was the Secretary-Treasurer of Fred Meyer, Inc. from its beginning and was very active in the company's marketing, purchasing and expansion decisions. An avid philanthropist, she was named Soroptimist of the Year in 1943 and in 1949 the Portland Women's Forum chose her as Woman of the Year. Eva Meyer was th...

Chiles, Earle M., 1934-

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Chatfield, Everett.

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Wright, Arthur (Guitarist)

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