CM & St. P RR Construction Camps & Crews near Butte – men in front of “new building at old camp” surrounded by trees (1907); building near trees and rocks (“old camp from hill east of camp”) (1907); camp with building, tents, man on horse, dog, and road in winter, probably in Thompson Park (1907); “view from construction camp near Butte” with trees, hills, and rocks; “construction camp near tunnel” with tents, building with tall chimneys, and corral; ten men, “railroad survey party,” including the cook, Norrington, Lockridge, Grossberg, Heller, Seymour, Dutreau, Remey, Brooks, McBrady”; engineering party, ”old camp” including four men (L. Ramey, Heller, Grossberg, Dutrow) in a horse-drawn wagon and three men (Lane, Lockridge, Norrington) standing in the road holding transits (1907); four Japanese men standing on a rail handcar, one holding a book and one with binoculars; large group of men posed with shovels (circa 1908-1910)., circa 1907-1910
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 1907-1910
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
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