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Montana

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 716 Collections and/or Records:

Pierre Chouteau, Jr. and Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: MC-004
Abstract Pierre Chouteau, Jr. and Company was a St. Louis, Missouri, based fur trading company with operations on the Upper Missouri River, including the area that later became Montana. Records include a letter from Pierre Menard (1810) from the region around Three Forks; Fort Benton Journal, Fort Sarpy Journal, and Fort Union Journal (1854-1856); and scattered correspondence and financial records (1834-1864). [Includes copies. Journals published in Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana,...
Dates: 1834-1864

Martha Edgerton Plassmann papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC-78
Abstract

Martha Plassmann (1850-1936) was a Montana pioneer, historian, and journalist. Collection consists of her autobiography and over 500 historical articles written for the Great Falls Tribune and the Montana News Association during the 1920s and 1930s. The articles, based on her own memories and on research, cover a wide range of topics, especially fur trappers, explorers, and vigilantes.

Dates: 1863-1939

Powder River Land and Cattle Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: MC-83
Abstract

The Powder River Land and Cattle Company, incorporated by John T. Murphy, A.L. Smith, and John Tucker, operated ranches in Carter and Custer counties. Collection includes interoffice correspondence (1922-1923, 1935); incoming correspondence (1935); financial records including cattle sales records (1916-1935), monthly trial balances (1919-1935), payroll (1926-1935), etc.; and organizational records, including articles of incorporation, bylaws, and minutes (1911-1943).

Dates: 1911-1944

Charles Benton Power papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC-55-a
Abstract

Charles Power (1868-1953) was a Helena, Montana, attorney and businessman, and son of Thomas C. Power. Collection (bulk, 1870s-1950s) includes incoming correspondence (1881-1953), diaries (1929-1949), subject files, and miscellany. There are also subgroups for family members and for several businesses of Power's.

Dates: 1870-1971

Power Family photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: Lot 006
Abstract Thomas C. Power (1829-1923) came to Montana Territory in 1866 and established a successful mercantile and transportation network in and around Fort Benton serving miners, military posts, Indian tribes of the region, and local residents. In partnership with others he developed a transportation network of steamboats along the Upper Missouri as well as overland stage and freight routes. He moved his corporate headquarters to Helena in 1878 and had an interest in politics that paralleled his...
Dates: 1872-1945

Thomas Charles Power papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC-55
Abstract T.C. Power was a Montana merchandise, transportation, mining, ranching, banking, and real estate magnate; and U.S. Senator from Montana from 1890 to 1895. Collection (1868-1950) includes personal, business, and political correspondence plus financial and legal papers of many of his business enterprises. Collection documents Power's involvement in military and Indian trade, steamboating, freighting, stage coach lines, mail contracts, cattle and sheep ranching, mining, banking, bridge...
Dates: 1868-1950

Thomas Charles Power papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC-55-b
Abstract

T.C. Power was a Montana merchandise, transportation, mining, ranching, banking, and real estate magnate; and U.S. Senator from Montana from 1890 to 1895. Collection (1867-1950) includes a transcript of a diary (1867) of his trip up the Missouri River; subject files (1873-1923), miscellany, and papers of his estate (1923-1950).

Dates: 1867-1950

Roy Douglas Pritchett papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC-154
Abstract

Roy Pritchett was a Helena, Montana, mine promoter. Papers (1944-1952) consist primarily of general correspondence from brother Glenn A. Pritchett and others regarding mine investments and development. There are also several original poems and one short story written by Pritchett.

Dates: 1944-1952

Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization Billings Local 311 records

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Identifier: MC-464
Abstract

Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization Billings Local 311 records consist of records created and collected by the local union in the years leading up to and following the 1981 nationwide strike. Includes correspondence, case files, financial records, constitution/contracts, membership records, notes, printed material, reports, and news clippings.

Dates: 1975-1982

Railroads in Montana photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: Lot 033
Abstract

This collection consists of photographs of railroads in Montana including construction sites and work crews; locomotive engines, freight cars, passenger cars, and stock cars; track lines, bridges, tunnels, and rail yard facilities; train wrecks; trains in snow; and special events like last spike and first train ceremonies.

Dates: 1880s-1960s