CM & St. P RR Tunnel Construction near Missoula – group of men holding shovels, sledge hammers, and candles inside a tunnel cut from rock; men pushing cart on tracks loaded with lumber at a tunnel entrance supported by scaffolding; men with horses pulling carts on tracks working at a tunnel entrance supported by scaffolding; men working on scaffolding at tunnel entrance; men on ladders and scaffolding working inside a tunnel entrance; tracks, lumber and scaffolding inside a tunnel near the entrance; ceiling support structure inside a tunnel; man, track and ceiling supports inside tunnel; men standing on dirt pile at tunnel entrance supported by rock; men and horse working on rock cut at Six Mile Creek (December 7, 1907); men, horses, and steam shovel working on rock cut east of Missoula (circa 1911); steam shovel inside a tunnel supported by wood framework., circa 1907-1911
Scope and Contents
Images document equipment, crews, construction camps, preparing rail bed, laying track, locomotives, steam shovels, dirt excavation, building of bridges and tunnels, etc. This subseries includes images taken near Missoula (circa 1907-1912) donated by Jack McDougall who worked as a contractor for the railroad. These photos were removed from a scrapbook and donated in 1962. There are images of track laying, tunnel and bridge building, and construction equipment, camps and crews. Photographs of construction near Butte were donated by Mrs. George Grossberg in 1959 whose husband worked on a survey crew in 1907-1908. The Grossberg photos include construction of bridges and tunnels and construction camps and crews in the Butte area. Other construction photographs include postcards donated by Hanely M. Johnson of Wisconsin in 1972 and include excavating, track laying, bridges and tunnels. Finally, there are miscellaneous photographs of bridge construction, construction crews, and building a tunnel at Taft. Negatives of the Taft tunnel photographs were received from the Wisconsin Historical Society in 1969.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1907-1911
Language of Materials
No textual or other language materials are included in the collection. Captions are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: 4 Boxes
From the Collection: 401 Photographic Prints
From the Collection: 47 Film Negatives - Nitrate
From the Collection: 20 Film Negatives - Nitrate
From the Collection: 27 Film Negatives - Safety
Repository Details
Part of the Montana Historical Society, Research Center Archives Repository
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