Burton K. Wheeler with group, including Blackfeet Indians and Evind D. Scoyen at the Glacier Park Hotel, East Glacier, Montana, undated; with members of the military, the Interstate Commerce Commission, and Federal Communications Commission, Washington National Airport, 1945 (includes Frank H. Collins, J. J. Smetana, Edward Fancher, Frank E. Stoner Edmund B. Craney, pilot Joseph E. Kimm, Senators Homer E. Capehart, Ernest W. McFarland, Albert W. Hawkes, Paul Porter, J. R. Redman and Henry Williams); with Ambassador Myron C. Taylor and other senators (including Homer E. Capehart, Homer Ferguson, Albert W. Hawkes, Ernest W. McFarland) at the Vatican after an audience with Pope Pius XII, 1945; with Edgar Morris and Morton Downey at Chatter Box luncheon, 1946; with Edward Wheeler at Ray Baker's wedding, 1949, 1945, 1946, 1949, undated
Scope and Contents
The collection contains photographs of Burton K. Wheeler (1882-1975), as well as his wife and children, and photographs taken during Wheeler's political career, mainly when he served as a United States Senator from Montana from 1923 until 1946. Of particular interest are photographs taken in 1928 when Wheeler was a member of a senate committee investigating a coal miners' strike in Pennsylvania. The collection also includes photographs of Wheeler's involvement in numerous other political and senatorial activities and views of Wheeler with his senate colleagues, miners' union leaders, and other people with whom he was involved during his career as a United States Senator.
Dates
- Creation: 1945, 1946, 1949, undated
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: 116 Photographic Prints
From the Collection: 2 Film Negatives - Safety
Repository Details
Part of the Montana Historical Society, Research Center Archives Repository
225 North Roberts
PO Box 201201
Helena MT 59620-1201 United States
406-444-2681
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