Meier and Frank Company collection [manuscript], circa 1855-2006.

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Meier and Frank Company collection [manuscript], circa 1855-2006.

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Records of and relating to the Meier and Frank Company, a prominent department store in Portland, Oregon, founded in 1857 and headed in the early 20th century by Julius L. Meier. The collection includes selections from the company's financial and administrative records; photographs; advertising materials; issues of the store's employee newsletter, "The daily bulletin"; ephemera; land records; plaques for Rose Parade floats; and Safety Program records from 2002-2006. Photographs includes images of the store taken in 1932 by noted Portland photographer Walter Boychuk; photographs of the store's floats in the Portland Rose Festival parades; photographs of store display windows in 1912; a membership roster (1904) for Congregation Beth Israel, Portland's largest synagogue; and records of charge account holders from the 1910s through the 1950s.

25 cubic feet (35 document cases, 7 flat boxes, 6 custom boxes, 9 oversize folders)

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6943193

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Meier, Julius L., 1874-1937

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Julius L. Meier (December 31, 1874 – July 14, 1937) was an American businessman, civic leader, and politician in the state of Oregon. An independent, he served as Governor of Oregon from 1931 to 1935. He is the only independent to be elected Governor of Oregon. Born in Portland, Oregon, he graduated from the University of Oregon School of Law in 1895 and practiced law with a partner, George W. Joseph, for the next four years, until he went into the family's business, the Meier & Frank Departm...

Meier and Frank (Portland, Or.)

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Meier family.

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Congregation Beth Israel (Portland, Or.)

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Frank family.

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Boychuk, Walter, 1886-1967

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Walter Boychuk (1886-1967) worked as a photographer in Oregon for half a century, making portraits of everyone from ordinary citizens to nationally known figures, including Sen. Wayne Morse, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Eleanor Roosevelt, Lowell Thomas, and Norman Thomas. Boychuk was born Oct. 25, 1886, at Galatia, Austria. He immigrated to Canada in 1903 and came to Portland in 1906, where he began working as a photographer around 1912. For a few years during the late 1920s, ...