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Edward Glassner photograph collection

 Item
Identifier: PAc 2018-39-1-22

Content Description

Includes 21 photographic prints from former Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad engineer Edward Glassner including: one tintype of an unidentified woman; a portrait of Edward Glassner after he arrived in Butte, Montana in 1896; a view of the Missouri River near Helena, Montana in 1905; two views of Edward Glassner in camp while working as a locating engineer for the Milwaukee Railroad in about 1906; two views of other engineers working with Glassner in 1906; portrait of C.T. Jackson, engineer with Milwaukee Railroad; E.E. Spetman, engineer from Iowa; three photos of various animals in the engineers' camp, 1907; a view of Helen, Montana, 1907; the hospital in Roundup, Montana that Edward Glassner's wife, Bellazona Kilby Gile, helped build, 1908; a view of a church in an unidentified location, 1909; a portrait of Edward Glassner, undated; two men near a stone building, undated; three photos of Edward and Bellazona Glassner in their garden, Billings, Montana, 1940s; and a portrait of Bellazona Glassner in 1950.

Dates

  • Creation: 1890 - 1950

Extent

21 Photographic Prints : Black and white. ; 7 x 4 1/2 in. and smaller.

1 Photographic Prints ; 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.

Language of Materials

English

Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Montana Historical Society, Research Center Archives Repository

Contact:
225 North Roberts
PO Box 201201
Helena MT 59620-1201 United States
406-444-2681
406-444-2696 (Fax)