Your Salary Doubled by a Course in Behnke-Walker Business College; Behnke-Walker Faculty and Management; [together with 1 color postcard]: Offices where she enrolled: Behnke-Walker Business College, Portland, Oregon, for your album –preserve…

Portland, Oregon: Behnke-Walker Business College, 1909 First editions of these scarce promotional pieces.. . The first item has tan/grey colored wrappers, with cover art of bill-note dated 1906 and Portland's Leading Business College printed in red on the back. Minor dustsoiling. Second item is a single folded once, with reproduced photographs of faculty on the front, their names on the back. The third item is a color-printed postcard split with two images likely of enrollment offices, and a promotional message on the back about the "civility shown in our offices. Three items, altogether. The first is an oblong octavo [36 pp (unpaginated)], printed and illustrated in sepia, with many reproduced photographs of classrooms, students, and teachers throughout. Second item is an oblong octavo [4 pp unpaginated)]. The third item is a 3 x 5 in. postcard. All in very good condition. The Behnke-Walker Business College and trade school operated from 1900 to the late 1930s, training thousands of students for careers in business, sales, real estate, insurance, and banking. It was founded by Behnke (fl. 1894-1913) and Isaac Walker (b. 1861). They offered courses such as efficiency and sales training, teacher training, accounting, typing, and more. The college had an aggressive sales recruitment system which sent out postcards like the one in this collection. Notable students of the college include Pauline Darling Pauling (1902-2003), sister of Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling, and Katie Hurley, secretary to Alaska Territorial Governor Ernest Geurening. It is worth noting that the College followed the city of Portland's policies at the time which excluded African Americans from employment at or enrollment in school. (Inventory #: 17846)