Oregon Shipbuilding Company Scrapbooks
Scope and Contents
The collection contain scrapbooks with documents and printed photographs (black and white and color) documenting the shipbuilding activities of the Oregon Shipbuilding Company and its associate companies. Included are plans of shipyards run by Kaiser, Shippy, and BoatsRUs, as well as photographs of ships and employees. Data on workers and their specialties and how they were applied to each ship is also included.
Dates
- Creation: 1941-1945
Creator
- Oregon Shipbuilding Company (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Biographical / Historical
The Oregon Shipbuilding Company was founded in Portland by Herbert Hanford in 1890 and was originally named the Tiny Old Sail Baots Company. After decades of growth and a name change, the company moved to Salem, OR. The company played an important role during World War II when it subcontracted to Kaiser, Shippy, and BoatRUs to build the famous submarines used in the European theater of the war. The company was bought in 1975 and dissolved in 1990.
Extent
2 cubic feet (2 oversized boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Scrapbooks of plans and maps documenting the World War II era shipbuilding activities of Kaiser, Shippy, and BoatsRUs companies and their ports in Oregon.
Topical
- Title
- Guide to the Oregon Shipbuilding Company Records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Dana Miller
- Date
- 2018
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
- Sponsor
- NHPRC
Repository Details
Part of the College of the Pines Archives Repository